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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Face lift refresher.
(c) Brain trauma.
(d) Wound repair.

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

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A surgeon.
(b) A writer.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A cadaver.

5. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By neglecting to tell families at all.
(b) By treating cadavers as parts.
(c) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.
(d) By using homeless people.

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

7. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Their dead relatives.
(b) Animals.
(c) Street people.
(d) Their students.

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

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

10. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Not very often.
(b) All the time.
(c) Hardly ever.
(d) Often.

11. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Torn aortas.
(b) Fragmented bodies.
(c) Burns.
(d) Bodies without clothes.

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

13. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were mummified and collected.
(c) They were shipped home and buried.
(d) They were buried where they fell.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

2. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

3. What causes bloat in cadavers?

4. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

5. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

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