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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. Who is Dennis Shanahan?
(a) An impact analyst.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) An injury analyst.
(d) A cadaver recruiter.

2. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(b) Because children are not donated to science.
(c) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.
(d) Because the studies are so invasive.

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

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) Stuffing.
(c) Wool.
(d) Cotton.

5. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Money for undergoing surgery.
(b) Unnecessary procedures.
(c) Large charges for small procedures.
(d) To watch surgeries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

2. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

3. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?

4. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

5. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?

(see the answer key)

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