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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. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By treating cadavers as parts.
(b) By neglecting to tell families at all.
(c) By using homeless people.
(d) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.

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

3. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When responses are considered.
(b) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(c) When studies look at bone fractures.
(d) When functioning organs are required.

4. 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 whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.
(c) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(d) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.

5. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?
(a) When an airplane's black box is not conclusive or missing.
(b) When ships sink and human remains float.
(c) When investigators are trying to distinguish between structural failure and bombs in airplanes.
(d) When investigators are looking for evidence of explosives in buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

2. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?

3. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?

4. What is a mellified man?

5. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

(see the answer key)

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