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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) How they died.
(d) Who their families are.

4. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) She does not have to interact with them.
(b) They cannot sue for malpractice.
(c) They let you try the procedure over and over again.
(d) They do not bleed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

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

5. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

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