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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Dead Man Driving.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were shipped home and buried.
(c) They were mummified and collected.
(d) They were buried where they fell.

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Contemptuously.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Irreverently.
(d) With morbid humor.

3. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a form of punishment.
(c) As a rare opportunity.
(d) As a last chance to learn techniques.

4. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Thieves.
(b) Hoodlums.
(c) Body snatchers.
(d) Resurrectionists.

5. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.
(b) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.
(c) Because it relies on legal sophistries.
(d) Because some research requires whole bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

2. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

3. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

4. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

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