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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 did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Churches.
(d) Teaching hospitals.

2. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By eating them.
(b) By burying them.
(c) By selling them as meat.
(d) By feeding it to dogs.

3. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(b) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(c) She tells herself the story of the person's life.
(d) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.

4. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(b) A demonstration on a cadaver.
(c) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.
(d) A tribute to a cadaver.

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Asclepius.
(b) Sarpedon.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

5. Who is Hugh Patterson?

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