Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Field research on human body decay.
(b) Cadaver reanimation.
(c) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(d) Trade in cadaver tissues.

3. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A linear impactor.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A pile of bricks.
(d) A car.

4. 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 the pain is debilitating.
(c) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(d) Because they know they have been shot.

5. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His former patients.
(b) His former professors.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His old friends.

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

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

8. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Family origins of cadavers.
(b) The moment of death of tissues.
(c) Origins and movements of tissues.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.

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

10. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Mortuary science.
(c) Embalming.
(d) Resurrection.

11. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A sensor suit.
(b) A helmet.
(c) A hood.
(d) A loincloth.

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

13. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(b) They afford greater visibility.
(c) The flesh is firmer.
(d) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.

14. 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) Organ decay.
(d) Formaldehyde.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

3. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

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

5. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?

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