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

2. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) They let you try the procedure over and over again.
(b) They do not bleed.
(c) They cannot sue for malpractice.
(d) She does not have to interact with them.

3. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) They afford greater visibility.
(b) The flesh is firmer.
(c) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(d) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.

4. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Unnecessary procedures.
(b) Large charges for small procedures.
(c) Money for undergoing surgery.
(d) To watch surgeries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

3. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

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

5. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

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