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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Cadavers.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Families.
(d) Teachers.

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

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Driving.
(b) Sprawling.
(c) Fetal.
(d) Lying down.

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

5. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Ground impact.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

2. What does UM006 wear for the study?

3. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

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