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

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

3. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) A constant flow.
(b) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(c) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.
(d) Only rare amputations.

4. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Families.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Cadavers.

5. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By nepotism.
(d) By seniority.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

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

4. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

5. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

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