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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Cemeteries.
(c) Churches.
(d) Teaching hospitals.
2. 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) Tissue decay.
(c) Gas buildup.
(d) Formaldehyde.
3. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Fragmented bodies.
(b) Burns.
(c) Bodies without clothes.
(d) Torn aortas.
4. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Raw science.
(b) Criminal investigations.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) Families.
5. What does Rick Lowden study?
(a) The legality of cadaver and animal tests.
(b) The corrosion of bullets in human flesh.
(c) The effects of the temporary stretch cavity.
(d) The ethics of using cadavers in tests.
6. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(b) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(c) Because they know they have been shot.
(d) Because the pain is debilitating.
7. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.
(b) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.
(c) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(d) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
8. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.
(b) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(c) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.
(d) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
9. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Cadaver reanimation.
(b) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(c) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(d) Field research on human body decay.
10. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Family origins of cadavers.
(b) Origins and movements of tissues.
(c) The moment of death of tissues.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.
11. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Wound repair.
(b) Face lift refresher.
(c) Blunt force damage.
(d) Brain trauma.
12. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A steering wheel.
(b) The floor.
(c) A cushion.
(d) A dashboard.
13. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Families.
(c) Cadavers.
(d) Sorrow.
14. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?
(a) Nothing.
(b) All the details of the study including long-term follow-up.
(c) Just the minimum facts.
(d) More than they need to know about their loved one.
15. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) How they died.
(d) Who their families are.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?
2. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
3. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?
4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
5. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
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