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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By using homeless people.
(b) By neglecting to tell families at all.
(c) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.
(d) By treating cadavers as parts.

3. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
(a) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science.
(b) A face-lift refresher.
(c) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers.
(d) Anatomy training.

4. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(b) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.
(c) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(d) She tells herself the story of the person's life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did injury analysis begin?

2. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

3. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

4. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

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