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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 were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Hoodlums.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Body snatchers.
(d) Resurrectionists.

2. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Tissue decomposition.
(b) Release of stomach gases.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Bacteria digesting internal organs.

3. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) A month.

4. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Perjuring themselves.
(b) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.
(c) Violating ethics laws.
(d) Offending families later.

5. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were not burned.
(b) Bodies were not widely distributed.
(c) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(d) Bodies were torn apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

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

4. What did Robert White have some success with?

5. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

(see the answer key)

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