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

2. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Driving.
(b) Fetal.
(c) Lying down.
(d) Sprawling.

3. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Street people.
(b) Their dead relatives.
(c) Their students.
(d) Animals.

4. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By sticking to protocols.
(b) By focusing on parts.
(c) By working to get justice in bombing cases.
(d) By grieving with colleagues.

5. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Who their families are.
(b) How they died.
(c) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(d) Whether they gave their permission for this.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

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

4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

5. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

(see the answer key)

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