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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 animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?
(a) Guinea pigs.
(b) Apes.
(c) Human cadavers.
(d) Live human convicts.

2. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Formaldehyde.
(c) Tissue decay.
(d) Gas buildup.

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

4. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were not burned.
(b) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(c) Bodies were not widely distributed.
(d) Bodies were torn apart.

5. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) With morbid humor.
(b) Contemptuously.
(c) Irreverently.
(d) Respectfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

2. When did injury analysis begin?

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

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

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

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