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

2. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Liquid.
(b) Overflow.
(c) Purge.
(d) Vomit.

3. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Presenting papers.
(b) Practicing and being critiqued.
(c) Singing and reading.
(d) Teaching sections.

4. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Release of stomach gases.
(b) Maggots.
(c) Tissue decomposition.
(d) Bacteria digesting internal organs.

5. 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?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Gas buildup.
(c) Tissue decay.
(d) Formaldehyde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

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

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

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

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