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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. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Time of death.
(b) Cause of death.
(c) Age of the deceased.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

2. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A sensor suit.
(b) A hood.
(c) A helmet.
(d) A loincloth.

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

4. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Getting training for surgeons.
(b) Keeping up with medical science.
(c) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(d) Learning the newest techniques.

5. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.
(b) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(c) A constant flow.
(d) Only rare amputations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

3. Why are animals used exclusively?

4. What was UM006 hit with?

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

(see the answer key)

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