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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A demonstration on a cadaver.
(b) A tribute to a cadaver.
(c) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(d) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.

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

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

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

5. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Ground impact.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

2. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

3. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

4. What was Barbet skeptical about?

5. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

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