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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Blow it up.
(b) Drop it out of a plane.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Lose it in the ocean.

2. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?
(a) High-speed rear-impact.
(b) Low-speed side-impact.
(c) High-speed side-impact.
(d) Low-speed head-on.

3. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?
(a) Give the body nutrition to feed its tissues.
(b) Begin to remove her organs.
(c) Bring her back to life.
(d) Keep her body alive.

4. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because children are not donated to science.
(b) Because the studies are so invasive.
(c) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.
(d) Because the studies are so disfiguring.

5. What did dummies prove to investigators?
(a) That long falls would be fatal before impact.
(b) That bodies will show irrefutable signs in case of explosions.
(c) That clothing is knocked off in long falls.
(d) That impact from long falls does not fragment a body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is anastomosis?

2. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

3. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

4. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?

5. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

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