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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.
(b) Because it relies on legal sophistries.
(c) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.
(d) Because some research requires whole bodies.

2. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Bodies.

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

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

5. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?
(a) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.
(b) Cadavers are the best stand-ins for actual human beings.
(c) Cadavers can be studied in invasive ways that live subjects cannot.
(d) Cadavers are cheaper to work with than people.

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

7. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Teaching hospitals.
(c) Cemeteries.
(d) Churches.

8. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.
(b) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(c) Because he has to travel a great deal.
(d) Because he has faith in people and their systems.

9. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were torn apart.
(b) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(c) Bodies were not burned.
(d) Bodies were not widely distributed.

10. 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?
(a) Tissue decay.
(b) Gas buildup.
(c) Formaldehyde.
(d) Organ decay.

11. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
(b) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(c) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(d) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.

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

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

14. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) A week.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

3. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

4. What did dummies prove to investigators?

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

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