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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(b) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(c) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Fetal.
(b) Driving.
(c) Lying down.
(d) Sprawling.

4. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Safer doors.
(b) Roll bars.
(c) Safer tires.
(d) Safer windshields.

5. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(b) Bodies were torn apart.
(c) Bodies were not widely distributed.
(d) Bodies were not burned.

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

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

8. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) With morbid humor.
(c) Contemptuously.
(d) Irreverently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Rick Lowden study?
(a) The ethics of using cadavers in tests.
(b) The legality of cadaver and animal tests.
(c) The corrosion of bullets in human flesh.
(d) The effects of the temporary stretch cavity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

2. How does Shanahan cope with his work?

3. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

4. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?

5. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?

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