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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. Who is Dennis Shanahan?
(a) A cadaver recruiter.
(b) An injury analyst.
(c) An impact analyst.
(d) A surgeon.

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

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

4. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Geriatric studies.
(b) High-speed impact studies.
(c) Decomposition studies.
(d) Pediatric studies.

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) A week.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

2. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

3. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

4. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

5. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

(see the answer key)

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