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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 was UM006 hit with?
(a) A pile of bricks.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A linear impactor.
(d) A car.

2. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because children are not donated to science.
(b) Because the studies are so invasive.
(c) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(d) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.

3. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By using homeless people.
(b) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.
(c) By treating cadavers as parts.
(d) By neglecting to tell families at all.

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Their dead relatives.
(b) Animals.
(c) Their students.
(d) Street people.

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Stuff them with cotton.
(b) Stuff them with wool.
(c) Glue them shut.
(d) Suture them shut.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

2. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

3. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

4. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

5. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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