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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, How to Know if You're Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Retrieve bullets from war dead.
(b) Implant bullets surgically.
(c) Shoot cadavers.
(d) Shoot livestock.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Street theatre.

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

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

5. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) The flesh is firmer.
(b) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(c) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(d) They afford greater visibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

3. What did dummies prove to investigators?

4. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

5. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?

(see the answer key)

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