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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Accurate medical knowledge.
(b) Anesthesia.
(c) Training.
(d) Assistants.

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

3. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) Contemptuously.
(c) Irreverently.
(d) With morbid humor.

4. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Face lift refresher.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Blunt force damage.
(d) Wound repair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

3. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

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

5. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Roach say cadavers were treated in early dissections?

2. What were Shanahan's conclusions about the cause of the Flight 800 disaster?

3. Who was UM006, and what was he being used for?

4. What does Mary Roach say was the practice with dead soldiers in the Civil War?

5. What projects has the military used cadavers for, in Mary Roach's account?

6. Why are human cadavers preferable to animals?

7. What is the advantage of practicing surgery on a cadaver?

8. Where did cadavers come from, in 18th century British surgeries?

9. How much does UM006's family know what the cadaver is being used for?

10. What is the first experience of cadavers that Mary Roach describes?

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