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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. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When responses are considered.
(b) When studies look at bone fractures.
(c) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(d) When functioning organs are required.

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By nepotism.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By merit.
(d) By seniority.

3. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His old friends.
(b) His former professors.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His former patients.

4. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Not very often.
(b) Hardly ever.
(c) All the time.
(d) Often.

5. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Resurrectionists.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Hoodlums.
(d) Body snatchers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

2. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

3. Why are animals used exclusively?

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

5. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

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