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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Street theatre.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Stand-up comedy.

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Lying down.
(b) Sprawling.
(c) Fetal.
(d) Driving.

4. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Safer tires.
(b) Safer windshields.
(c) Roll bars.
(d) Safer doors.

5. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water impact.
(d) Ground impact.

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

7. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1968.

8. What was Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Shoot livestock.
(b) Retrieve bullets from war dead.
(c) Shoot cadavers.
(d) Implant bullets surgically.

9. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(b) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(c) Liquidation of internal organs.
(d) Persistence of putrescent odor.

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

11. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Economic.
(b) Federal.
(c) Sociopolitical.
(d) Bureaucratic.

12. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?
(a) The bigger the cavity, the deadlier the bullet.
(b) The smaller the cavity, the deeper the wound.
(c) The smaller the cavity, the greater the psychological impact of the shot.
(d) The bigger the cavity, the greater the stopping power.

13. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Executed criminals.
(d) Dead soldiers.

14. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By selling them as meat.
(b) By feeding it to dogs.
(c) By burying them.
(d) By eating them.

15. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Boots.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Bullet-proof vests.
(d) Body armor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

2. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

3. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

4. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?

5. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

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