Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Mary Roach
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, How to Know if You're Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Lying down.
(b) Sprawling.
(c) Fetal.
(d) Driving.

2. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Postmortem decapitation.
(c) Distribution.
(d) Burns.

3. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Ground impact.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Fire.
(d) Fragmentation.

4. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Teaching hospitals.
(c) Churches.
(d) Murderers.

5. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Street theatre.
(d) Stand-up comedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

2. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

3. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

4. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?

5. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

(see the answer key)

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