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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. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(b) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(c) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(d) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(b) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(c) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(d) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.

3. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?
(a) A coping mechanism.
(b) A means of seeing humanity even in the cadaver.
(c) A technique for keeping control during surgery.
(d) A way to keep from cracking up during a procedure.

4. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Face lift refresher.
(c) Wound repair.
(d) Brain trauma.

5. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) The moment of death of tissues.
(b) Origins and movements of tissues.
(c) Family origins of cadavers.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

3. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

4. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

5. Who is Hugh Patterson?

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