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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 does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Artists.
(c) Audiences.
(d) Scientists.

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

3. Who is Mike Walsh?
(a) A teaching surgeon.
(b) The director of willed bodies at Wayne State University.
(c) An investigator at the research center.
(d) The head of dissection and anatomy at San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.

4. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A sensor suit.
(b) A hood.
(c) A loincloth.
(d) A helmet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

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

3. 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?

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

5. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

(see the answer key)

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