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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. Where does Mary Roach say medical school skeletons used to come from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Indiana.
(c) China.
(d) Calcutta.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Street theatre.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Tragedy.

3. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Federal.
(b) Sociopolitical.
(c) Economic.
(d) Bureaucratic.

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

5. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Arrest.
(b) Discharge.
(c) Court martial.
(d) Defunding.

Short Answer Questions

1. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

2. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

3. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

4. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

5. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

(see the answer key)

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