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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 class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Wound repair.

2. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) The floor.
(b) A steering wheel.
(c) A dashboard.
(d) A cushion.

3. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a form of punishment.
(b) As a demotion from surgery.
(c) As a last chance to learn techniques.
(d) As a rare opportunity.

4. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(b) Because they are working with human remains.
(c) They are usually timed.
(d) They are superstitious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

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

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

5. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

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