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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 does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Lose it in the ocean.
(b) Drop it out of a plane.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Blow it up.

2. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
(a) Executing prisoners.
(b) Working in a geriatric ward.
(c) Overseeing executions during the Reign of Terror.
(d) Managing a surgery.

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(b) Liquidation of internal organs.
(c) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(d) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.

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

5. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the seat of consciousness.
(b) As the heart of the soul.
(c) As the location of the soul.
(d) As the last thing to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was UM006 hit with?

2. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

5. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?

(see the answer key)

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