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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 difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Learning the newest techniques.
(b) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(c) Keeping up with medical science.
(d) Getting training for surgeons.

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(b) To attract flies to be studied.
(c) For theme parks and haunted houses.
(d) To train dogs to find bodies.

3. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(b) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(c) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(d) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.

4. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Stand-up comedy.
(c) Street theatre.
(d) Tragedy.

5. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She tells herself the story of the person's life.
(b) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(c) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(d) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

3. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

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

5. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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