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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 surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Hands.
(b) Feet.
(c) Torsos.
(d) Faces.

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

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
(b) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.
(c) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(d) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.

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

5. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Embalming.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Mortuary science.
(d) Revitalization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

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

3. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

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

5. What causes bloat in cadavers?

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