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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 do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Raw science.
(b) Criminal investigations.
(c) Families.
(d) Cancer research.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a rare opportunity.
(c) As a form of punishment.
(d) As a last chance to learn techniques.

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

4. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A tribute to a cadaver.
(b) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.
(c) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(d) A demonstration on a cadaver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

3. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

4. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

5. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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