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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By nepotism.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By seniority.
(d) By merit.

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

4. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When studies look at bone fractures.
(b) When responses are considered.
(c) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(d) When functioning organs are required.

5. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A cushion.
(b) The floor.
(c) A dashboard.
(d) A steering wheel.

6. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The test was inconclusive.
(b) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.
(c) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(d) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.

7. Who is UM006?
(a) A patient in an impact study.
(b) A scientist studying human impacts.
(c) A cadaver in an impact study.
(d) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.

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

9. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Artists.
(d) Audiences.

10. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(b) Because they know they have been shot.
(c) Because the pain is debilitating.
(d) Because the bullet knocks them over.

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

12. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Stuff them with cotton.
(b) Glue them shut.
(c) Stuff them with wool.
(d) Suture them shut.

13. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) She does not have to interact with them.
(b) They do not bleed.
(c) They let you try the procedure over and over again.
(d) They cannot sue for malpractice.

14. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Cadavers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Families.
(d) Sorrow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

5. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

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