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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) The floor.
(b) A steering wheel.
(c) A cushion.
(d) A dashboard.

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

4. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1893.

5. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A pile of bricks.
(c) A car.
(d) A linear impactor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

4. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

5. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

(see the answer key)

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