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

2. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) A surgeon.
(d) A writer.

3. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Cadaver reanimation.
(b) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(c) Field research on human body decay.
(d) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.

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

5. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They are superstitious.
(b) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(c) They are usually timed.
(d) Because they are working with human remains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

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

3. What causes bloat in cadavers?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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