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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His enemies.
(b) His former professors.
(c) His former patients.
(d) His old friends.

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

4. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Court martial.
(b) Arrest.
(c) Discharge.
(d) Defunding.

5. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(b) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(c) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.
(d) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

3. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

5. What does Rick Lowden study?

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