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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 Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried where they fell.
(b) They were buried in Arlington.
(c) They were mummified and collected.
(d) They were shipped home and buried.

2. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Anesthesia.
(b) Assistants.
(c) Accurate medical knowledge.
(d) Training.

3. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
(b) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(c) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(d) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

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

3. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

5. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

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