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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 permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Nero.
(c) Ptolemy I.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

3. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) A surgeon.
(d) A writer.

4. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Geriatric studies.
(b) Pediatric studies.
(c) Decomposition studies.
(d) High-speed impact studies.

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Suture them shut.
(b) Stuff them with cotton.
(c) Glue them shut.
(d) Stuff them with wool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

2. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

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

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

5. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

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