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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. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Bodies.

2. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Learning the newest techniques.
(b) Getting training for surgeons.
(c) Keeping up with medical science.
(d) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.

3. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Live criminals.
(b) Unwilling victims.
(c) Executed criminals.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

4. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?
(a) A coping mechanism.
(b) A technique for keeping control during surgery.
(c) A way to keep from cracking up during a procedure.
(d) A means of seeing humanity even in the cadaver.

5. Who is UM006?
(a) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(b) A scientist studying human impacts.
(c) A cadaver in an impact study.
(d) A patient in an impact study.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

4. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

5. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

(see the answer key)

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