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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 does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Control.
(b) Freedom from liability.
(c) Clear visualization.
(d) Emotional distance.

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

3. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Clothing.

4. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were shipped home and buried.
(c) They were mummified and collected.
(d) They were buried where they fell.

5. 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) To train dogs to find bodies.
(d) For theme parks and haunted houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

2. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

4. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

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

(see the answer key)

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