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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The opening made by a bullet.
(b) The depth of a bullet wound.
(c) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(d) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.

2. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1945.

3. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Cadaver reanimation.
(b) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(c) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(d) Field research on human body decay.

4. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(b) Because he has to travel a great deal.
(c) Because he has faith in people and their systems.
(d) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?

4. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

5. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

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