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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Remains of the Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to eat excrement.
(b) When advised to eat their own flesh.
(c) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.
(d) When advised to be bled.

2. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Money for undergoing surgery.
(b) To watch surgeries.
(c) Unnecessary procedures.
(d) Large charges for small procedures.

3. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Gas.
(c) Acetone.
(d) Polymer.

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

5. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Teaching hospitals.
(d) Churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?

2. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

3. What is the advantage of water reduction?

4. What is a mellified man?

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

(see the answer key)

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