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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. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Burns.
(c) Distribution.
(d) Postmortem decapitation.

2. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(b) How to design helmets.
(c) How much force a soldier can withstand.
(d) How rescue techniques can save lives.

3. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Resurrectionists.
(b) Hoodlums.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Body snatchers.

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

5. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Purge.
(c) Liquid.
(d) Overflow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are animals used exclusively?

2. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

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

4. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

5. What does UM006 wear for the study?

(see the answer key)

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