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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) Contemptuously.
(c) Respectfully.
(d) With morbid humor.

2. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?
(a) Cadavers are cheaper to work with than people.
(b) Cadavers are the best stand-ins for actual human beings.
(c) Cadavers can be studied in invasive ways that live subjects cannot.
(d) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.

3. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Dead soldiers.
(d) Executed criminals.

4. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) A week.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

2. What was UM006 hit with?

3. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

4. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

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