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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Internal organs.
(c) Wool.
(d) Stuffing.

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Irreverently.
(b) With morbid humor.
(c) Contemptuously.
(d) Respectfully.

3. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Age of the deceased.
(b) Cause of death.
(c) The deceased's health at death.
(d) Time of death.

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

5. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Cadavers.
(b) Families.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

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

3. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

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

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

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