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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) All the time.
(b) Hardly ever.
(c) Often.
(d) Not very often.

2. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(b) When responses are considered.
(c) When functioning organs are required.
(d) When studies look at bone fractures.

3. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) A cadaver.
(d) A writer.

4. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Disinterred dead people.
(c) Executed criminals.
(d) Dead soldiers.

5. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Safer tires.
(b) Safer windshields.
(c) Roll bars.
(d) Safer doors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

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

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

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