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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 do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Origins and movements of tissues.
(b) Stages of chemical composition.
(c) The moment of death of tissues.
(d) Family origins of cadavers.

2. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A month.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) A week.

3. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Not very often.
(b) Hardly ever.
(c) All the time.
(d) Often.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What is the advantage of water reduction?

4. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?

5. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?

(see the answer key)

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