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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. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Heady and unlike anything else.
(b) Bitter and rough.
(c) Sweet and cloying.
(d) Nauseating and sharp.

2. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(b) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(c) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.
(d) Depending on where they sat in a plane.

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Liquidation of internal organs.
(b) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(c) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(d) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.

4. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(b) Because the pain is debilitating.
(c) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(d) Because they know they have been shot.

5. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because he has to travel a great deal.
(b) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(c) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.
(d) Because he has faith in people and their systems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

2. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

4. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

5. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?

(see the answer key)

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