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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting dog hearts.
(b) Transplanting dog heads.
(c) Transplanting monkey heads.
(d) Transplanting human heads.

2. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) A constant flow.
(b) Only rare amputations.
(c) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(d) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.

3. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?
(a) Prosecute anyone who discloses the nature of the research.
(b) Deny any impropriety in advance.
(c) Refuse to disclose anything.
(d) Describe the research in general terms.

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

5. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to eat their own flesh.
(b) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.
(c) When advised to be bled.
(d) When advised to eat excrement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

3. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

4. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

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