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

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Wool.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Internal organs.
(d) Stuffing.

3. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?
(a) At impact.
(b) At fragmentation of the aircraft.
(c) At the initial explosion.
(d) At depressurization.

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

5. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Hands.
(b) Feet.
(c) Torsos.
(d) Faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

2. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

3. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

4. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

5. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

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