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

2. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a last chance to learn techniques.
(c) As a rare opportunity.
(d) As a form of punishment.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

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

3. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

4. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

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