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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 was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.
(b) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(c) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
(d) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) For theme parks and haunted houses.
(b) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(c) To train dogs to find bodies.
(d) To attract flies to be studied.

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

4. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
(a) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers.
(b) Anatomy training.
(c) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science.
(d) A face-lift refresher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

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

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

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

(see the answer key)

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