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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Drop it out of a plane.
(b) Blow it up.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Lose it in the ocean.

2. 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) Gas buildup.
(b) Formaldehyde.
(c) Organ decay.
(d) Tissue decay.

3. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Mortuary science.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Embalming.
(d) Revitalization.

4. Who is Mike Walsh?
(a) The director of willed bodies at Wayne State University.
(b) An investigator at the research center.
(c) The head of dissection and anatomy at San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.
(d) A teaching surgeon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

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

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

4. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

5. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

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