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

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

3. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Thieves.
(b) Hoodlums.
(c) Resurrectionists.
(d) Body snatchers.

4. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?
(a) At fragmentation of the aircraft.
(b) At depressurization.
(c) At the initial explosion.
(d) At impact.

5. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(b) There were so many young people on board.
(c) The bodies were unrecognizable.
(d) The bodies covered a large area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

5. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

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