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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. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Asclepius.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Sarpedon.

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(b) A demonstration on a cadaver.
(c) A tribute to a cadaver.
(d) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.

3. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Time of death.
(b) Cause of death.
(c) Age of the deceased.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

4. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(b) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(c) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(d) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

2. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

3. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

4. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

5. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

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