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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 does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?
(a) Ghastly.
(b) Perverse.
(c) Promising.
(d) Fascinating.

2. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because the studies are so invasive.
(b) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(c) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.
(d) Because children are not donated to science.

3. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
(a) Brain and central nervous system injuries.
(b) Broken bones.
(c) Face injuries.
(d) Organ injuries.

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A writer.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A cadaver.

5. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Keeping up with medical science.
(b) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(c) Learning the newest techniques.
(d) Getting training for surgeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

4. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

5. What was surprise supposed to have done to a body before death?

(see the answer key)

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