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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. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(b) To attract flies to be studied.
(c) To train dogs to find bodies.
(d) For theme parks and haunted houses.

2. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?
(a) Side impacts.
(b) Injured people's claims.
(c) Airlines claims.
(d) Deceased's families' claims.

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.
(b) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(c) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
(d) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.

4. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Feet.
(b) Torsos.
(c) Hands.
(d) Faces.

5. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Tissue decomposition.
(b) Bacteria digesting internal organs.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Release of stomach gases.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

3. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

4. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?

5. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

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