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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. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Disinterred dead people.
(d) Dead soldiers.

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

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

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

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Glue them shut.
(b) Stuff them with cotton.
(c) Stuff them with wool.
(d) Suture them shut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

4. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

5. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

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