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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Decomposition studies.
(b) Pediatric studies.
(c) High-speed impact studies.
(d) Geriatric studies.

5. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Bitter and rough.
(b) Heady and unlike anything else.
(c) Sweet and cloying.
(d) Nauseating and sharp.

6. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?
(a) Distribution.
(b) Burns.
(c) Postmortem decapitation.
(d) Fragmentation.

7. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fire swept through the cabin.
(b) Passengers were thrown from the plane.
(c) Gas was ignited by frayed wiring.
(d) Passengers were pulled from their seats.

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

9. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?
(a) Low-speed side-impact.
(b) Low-speed head-on.
(c) High-speed rear-impact.
(d) High-speed side-impact.

10. 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 be studied in invasive ways that live subjects cannot.
(d) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.

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

12. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Asclepius.
(b) Sarpedon.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Apollo.

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

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

15. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(b) How they died.
(c) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(d) Who their families are.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are animals used exclusively?

2. What does UM006 fall onto?

3. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?

4. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

5. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

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