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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Purge.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Overflow.

4. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Gas buildup.
(c) Formaldehyde.
(d) Tissue decay.

5. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Perjuring themselves.
(b) Offending families later.
(c) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.
(d) Violating ethics laws.

6. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A dashboard.
(b) A steering wheel.
(c) The floor.
(d) A cushion.

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

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

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

10. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Clear visualization.
(b) Freedom from liability.
(c) Emotional distance.
(d) Control.

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

12. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) They cannot sue for malpractice.
(b) They do not bleed.
(c) They let you try the procedure over and over again.
(d) She does not have to interact with them.

13. What did dummies prove to investigators?
(a) That long falls would be fatal before impact.
(b) That clothing is knocked off in long falls.
(c) That bodies will show irrefutable signs in case of explosions.
(d) That impact from long falls does not fragment a body.

14. What was Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Retrieve bullets from war dead.
(b) Shoot cadavers.
(c) Shoot livestock.
(d) Implant bullets surgically.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was UM006 hit with?

2. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

4. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

5. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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