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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Families would object to it.
(b) Disclosure.
(c) Expense.
(d) Ethics.

2. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Criminal investigations.
(b) Cancer research.
(c) Families.
(d) Raw science.

3. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Dead soldiers.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

4. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.
(b) The test was inconclusive.
(c) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(d) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.

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

6. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Nero.
(d) Ptolemy I.

7. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?
(a) When an airplane's black box is not conclusive or missing.
(b) When investigators are trying to distinguish between structural failure and bombs in airplanes.
(c) When investigators are looking for evidence of explosives in buildings.
(d) When ships sink and human remains float.

8. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Singing and reading.
(b) Practicing and being critiqued.
(c) Teaching sections.
(d) Presenting papers.

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

10. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Pediatric studies.
(b) Geriatric studies.
(c) Decomposition studies.
(d) High-speed impact studies.

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

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

13. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Bodies without clothes.
(b) Burns.
(c) Torn aortas.
(d) Fragmented bodies.

14. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(b) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(c) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(d) The skills have to be taught somehow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?

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

3. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

4. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

5. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?

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