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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. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1954.

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

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Nero.
(c) Ptolemy I.
(d) Cleopatra.

4. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(b) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(c) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(d) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.

5. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Street theatre.
(b) Opera.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

3. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?

4. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

5. What does UM006 fall onto?

(see the answer key)

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