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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A surgeon.
(b) A writer.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A cadaver.

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

3. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Heady and unlike anything else.
(b) Nauseating and sharp.
(c) Bitter and rough.
(d) Sweet and cloying.

4. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How rescue techniques can save lives.
(b) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(c) How to design helmets.
(d) How much force a soldier can withstand.

5. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Age of the deceased.
(b) The deceased's health at death.
(c) Cause of death.
(d) Time of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

2. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

3. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

4. What was UM006 hit with?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the memorial service for unnamed cadavers at UCSF?

2. What test was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to perform in 1893?

3. What projects has the military used cadavers for, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Why does Dennis Tobin say people fall down when shot?

5. How does consent figure in the use of cadavers for medical training?

6. What cases does Mary Roach describe in which people murdered others in order to sell their bodies to surgeons?

7. How were morticians preparing bodies at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

8. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

9. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

10. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of dead bodies?

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