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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. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(b) To train dogs to find bodies.
(c) To attract flies to be studied.
(d) For theme parks and haunted houses.

2. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) The floor.
(b) A dashboard.
(c) A cushion.
(d) A steering wheel.

3. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?
(a) That he had incorrectly located Destot's place.
(b) That he had used the wrong chemicals in his analysis.
(c) That he had been unethical in his use of cadavers.
(d) That tests in which live people are strapped to crosses are ineffective.

4. What does Mary Roach say funeral reform was driven by?
(a) Utilitarianism.
(b) Big business.
(c) Religion.
(d) Government regulation.

5. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.
(b) By treating cadavers as parts.
(c) By using homeless people.
(d) By neglecting to tell families at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes bloat in cadavers?

2. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

5. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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