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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(b) They afford greater visibility.
(c) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(d) The flesh is firmer.

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

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

6. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.
(b) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(c) Because he has faith in people and their systems.
(d) Because he has to travel a great deal.

7. Who is Dennis Shanahan?
(a) An injury analyst.
(b) An impact analyst.
(c) A cadaver recruiter.
(d) A surgeon.

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

9. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Anesthesia.
(b) Accurate medical knowledge.
(c) Assistants.
(d) Training.

10. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Glue them shut.
(b) Suture them shut.
(c) Stuff them with cotton.
(d) Stuff them with wool.

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

12. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Cemeteries.
(c) Teaching hospitals.
(d) Churches.

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

14. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

15. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Wool.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Stuffing.
(d) Internal organs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

3. 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?

4. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

5. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

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