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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) To watch surgeries.
(b) Money for undergoing surgery.
(c) Large charges for small procedures.
(d) Unnecessary procedures.

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

6. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His enemies.
(b) His old friends.
(c) His former professors.
(d) His former patients.

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

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

9. How does Mary Roach characterize the second 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. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Criminal investigations.
(b) Raw science.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) Families.

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

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

13. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Fragmented bodies.
(b) Torn aortas.
(c) Bodies without clothes.
(d) Burns.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

2. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

4. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

5. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

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