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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. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?
(a) To fill tissues with oxygen.
(b) To drive water out of tissue.
(c) To convert water in tissues to gas.
(d) To fill tissues with polymer.

2. What did Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting dog hearts.
(b) Transplanting monkey heads.
(c) Transplanting dog heads.
(d) Transplanting human heads.

3. What kind of mummies were sold in 18th century Alexandria?
(a) Syrian.
(b) Recent.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Counterfeit.

4. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(b) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(c) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(d) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.

5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(b) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(c) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(d) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?

2. What was the original advantage of cremation when it was first advocated?

3. Who is Mike Walsh?

4. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

5. What was Destot's space?

(see the answer key)

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