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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Remains of the Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?
(a) Prosecute anyone who discloses the nature of the research.
(b) Deny any impropriety in advance.
(c) Describe the research in general terms.
(d) Refuse to disclose anything.

2. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Dead soldiers.
(c) Suicides.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

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

4. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?
(a) Keep her body alive.
(b) Begin to remove her organs.
(c) Give the body nutrition to feed its tissues.
(d) Bring her back to life.

5. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(b) Making a severed head blink.
(c) Electrifying severed heads.
(d) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

2. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

3. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

4. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

5. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?

(see the answer key)

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