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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. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Ptolemy I.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Nero.

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

3. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) Who their families are.
(d) How they died.

4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His enemies.
(b) His former patients.
(c) His former professors.
(d) His old friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

3. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

4. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

5. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

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