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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Economic.
(b) Federal.
(c) Sociopolitical.
(d) Bureaucratic.

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Control.
(b) Emotional distance.
(c) Freedom from liability.
(d) Clear visualization.

3. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Faces.
(b) Feet.
(c) Torsos.
(d) Hands.

4. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They are usually timed.
(b) Because they are working with human remains.
(c) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(d) They are superstitious.

5. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
(a) Working in a geriatric ward.
(b) Executing prisoners.
(c) Overseeing executions during the Reign of Terror.
(d) Managing a surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

3. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

4. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?

5. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

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