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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. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) How they died.
(d) Who their families are.

2. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Just the minimum facts.
(c) More than they need to know about their loved one.
(d) All the details of the study including long-term follow-up.

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

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

5. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Churches.
(c) Teaching hospitals.
(d) Cemeteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

2. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

(see the answer key)

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