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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Release of stomach gases.
(b) Maggots.
(c) Tissue decomposition.
(d) Bacteria digesting internal organs.

2. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?
(a) Age of corpses.
(b) Intactness of corpses.
(c) Time of death.
(d) Distribution of corpses.

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

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

5. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Getting training for surgeons.
(b) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(c) Learning the newest techniques.
(d) Keeping up with medical science.

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

7. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When functioning organs are required.
(b) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(c) When responses are considered.
(d) When studies look at bone fractures.

8. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because they are working with human remains.
(b) They are superstitious.
(c) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(d) They are usually timed.

9. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(b) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(c) Liquidation of internal organs.
(d) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.

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

11. 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.

12. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(b) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(c) The depth of a bullet wound.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

13. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By sticking to protocols.
(b) By grieving with colleagues.
(c) By working to get justice in bombing cases.
(d) By focusing on parts.

14. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1916.

15. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Singing and reading.
(b) Practicing and being critiqued.
(c) Presenting papers.
(d) Teaching sections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hugh Patterson?

2. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

4. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

5. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

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