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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Dead Man Driving.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is UM006?
(a) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(b) A cadaver in an impact study.
(c) A patient in an impact study.
(d) A scientist studying human impacts.

2. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Heirlooms.

3. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) The moment of death of tissues.
(b) Stages of chemical composition.
(c) Family origins of cadavers.
(d) Origins and movements of tissues.

4. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
(a) Broken bones.
(b) Organ injuries.
(c) Brain and central nervous system injuries.
(d) Face injuries.

5. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Tissue decomposition.
(b) Release of stomach gases.
(c) Bacteria digesting internal organs.
(d) Maggots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

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

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

4. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

5. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

(see the answer key)

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