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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Unwilling victims.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Live criminals.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

2. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?
(a) Intactness of corpses.
(b) Age of corpses.
(c) Time of death.
(d) Distribution of corpses.

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

4. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Large charges for small procedures.
(b) Unnecessary procedures.
(c) To watch surgeries.
(d) Money for undergoing surgery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

3. 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?

4. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

5. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

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