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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is UM006?
(a) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(b) A patient in an impact study.
(c) A scientist studying human impacts.
(d) A cadaver in an impact study.

2. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?
(a) Nothing.
(b) More than they need to know about their loved one.
(c) Just the minimum facts.
(d) All the details of the study including long-term follow-up.

3. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(b) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(c) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(d) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.

4. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Mortuary science.
(d) Embalming.

5. Who is Mike Walsh?
(a) An investigator at the research center.
(b) The head of dissection and anatomy at San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.
(c) A teaching surgeon.
(d) The director of willed bodies at Wayne State University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

2. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

3. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

4. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?

5. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

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