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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 do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Violating ethics laws.
(b) Offending families later.
(c) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.
(d) Perjuring themselves.

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(b) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(c) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(d) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.

3. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Asclepius.
(b) Herophilus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Sarpedon.

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Spreading religion.
(b) Having faith.
(c) Relieving pain.
(d) Spreading democracy.

5. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.
(b) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(c) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(d) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did dummies prove to investigators?

2. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

3. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

4. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

5. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

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