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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Death on impact.
(b) Explosion.
(c) Missile attack.
(d) On-board fire.

2. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Sarpedon.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Asclepius.

3. What was Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Shoot cadavers.
(b) Shoot livestock.
(c) Implant bullets surgically.
(d) Retrieve bullets from war dead.

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

5. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Clear visualization.
(b) Control.
(c) Emotional distance.
(d) Freedom from liability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

3. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

4. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

5. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

(see the answer key)

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