Multiple Choice - Chapter 3, Life After
Death
1. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that
does what? a) Trade in cadaver tissues.
b) Cadaver reanimation.
c) Return stolen
cadavers to their graves.
d) Field research on human body decay.
2. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee? a) Origins and
movements of tissues.
b) The moment of death of tissues.
c) Stages of chemical
composition.
d) Family origins of cadavers.
3. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee? a)
Cancer research.
b) Raw science.
c) Criminal investigations.
d) Families.
4. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios? a) Time of
death.
b) The deceased's health at death.
c) Cause of death.
d) Age of the deceased.
5. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver? a)
Persistence of putrescent odor.
b) Liquidation of internal organs.
c) Skin sloughing off,
with maggots beneath the surface.
d) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
6. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver? a)
Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
b) Persistence of putrescent odor.
c) Skin
sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
d) Liquidation of internal organs.
7. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver? a)
Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
b) Bloat with large numbers of
maggots.
c) Liquidation of internal organs.
d) Persistence of putrescent odor.
8. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death? a) Nauseating and sharp.
b)
Heady and unlike anything else.
c) Sweet and cloying. d) Bitter and rough.
9. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last? a) Three weeks.
b) A
week.
c) A month.
d) Two weeks.
10. What causes bloat in cadavers? a) Tissue decomposition.
b) Release of stomach
gases.
c) Bacteria digesting internal organs. d) Maggots.
11. For how long after death can internal organs be identified? a) A month.
b) Two
weeks.
c) A week.
d) Three weeks.
12. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies? a) To train dogs to find
bodies.
b) For theme parks and haunted houses.
c) To study the receptors in flies and
other insects.
d) To attract flies to be studied.
13. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the
75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College
of Mortuary Science?
a) Gas buildup.
b) Organ decay.
c) Formaldehyde. d) Tissue decay.
14. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's
mouth? a) Purge.
b) Liquid.
c) Vomit.
d) Overflow.
15. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff
cadavers' eyes with? a) Stuffing.
b) Wool.
c) Internal organs.
d) Cotton.
16. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to
cadavers' mouths? a) Stuff them with wool.
b) Stuff them with cotton. c) Glue them shut.
d) Suture them shut.
17. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
a) They were buried where they fell.
b) They were mummified and collected.
c) They
were buried in Arlington.
d) They were shipped home and buried.
18. What did Thomas Holmes perfect? a) Resurrection.
b) Revitalization.
c)
Embalming.
d) Mortuary science.