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

2. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Assistants.
(b) Training.
(c) Anesthesia.
(d) Accurate medical knowledge.

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Stuffing.
(c) Internal organs.
(d) Wool.

4. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(b) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(c) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(d) The skills have to be taught somehow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?

2. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

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

4. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

5. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

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