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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 the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Overflow.
(b) Purge.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Liquid.

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

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

4. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?
(a) Live human convicts.
(b) Human cadavers.
(c) Guinea pigs.
(d) Apes.

5. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were shipped home and buried.
(c) They were buried where they fell.
(d) They were mummified and collected.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

2. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

4. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

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

(see the answer key)

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