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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By nepotism.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By merit.
(d) By seniority.

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To attract flies to be studied.
(b) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(c) For theme parks and haunted houses.
(d) To train dogs to find bodies.

3. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) They afford greater visibility.
(b) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(c) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(d) The flesh is firmer.

4. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Field research on human body decay.
(b) Cadaver reanimation.
(c) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(d) Trade in cadaver tissues.

5. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Liquidation of internal organs.
(b) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(c) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(d) Persistence of putrescent odor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

2. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

3. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

5. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

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