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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Families would object to it.
(c) Disclosure.
(d) Expense.

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

4. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(b) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.
(c) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(d) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.

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

6. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(b) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(c) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(d) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.

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

8. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?
(a) Apes.
(b) Live human convicts.
(c) Guinea pigs.
(d) Human cadavers.

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

10. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(b) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.
(c) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
(d) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.

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

12. Who is Dennis Shanahan?
(a) An impact analyst.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) A cadaver recruiter.
(d) An injury analyst.

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

14. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Age of the deceased.
(b) Time of death.
(c) Cause of death.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

15. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Death on impact.
(b) Missile attack.
(c) On-board fire.
(d) Explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?

2. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

3. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

4. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

5. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

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