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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 often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) All the time.
(b) Not very often.
(c) Often.
(d) Hardly ever.

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Liquidation of internal organs.
(b) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(c) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(d) Persistence of putrescent odor.

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

4. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(b) When studies look at bone fractures.
(c) When functioning organs are required.
(d) When responses are considered.

5. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
(a) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers.
(b) A face-lift refresher.
(c) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science.
(d) Anatomy training.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is UM006?

2. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

3. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

4. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

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

(see the answer key)

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