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

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

3. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Live criminals.
(d) Unwilling victims.

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

5. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By nepotism.
(d) By seniority.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

2. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

3. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?

5. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

(see the answer key)

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