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

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Glue them shut.
(b) Stuff them with cotton.
(c) Suture them shut.
(d) Stuff them with wool.

3. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By eating them.
(b) By selling them as meat.
(c) By burying them.
(d) By feeding it to dogs.

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(b) The depth of a bullet wound.
(c) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

5. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Wound repair.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Blunt force damage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

2. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

3. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

4. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

5. How does Shanahan cope with his work?

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