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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(b) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(c) The depth of a bullet wound.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

3. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Their students.
(b) Street people.
(c) Their dead relatives.
(d) Animals.

4. Who is Mike Walsh?
(a) The head of dissection and anatomy at San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.
(b) A teaching surgeon.
(c) The director of willed bodies at Wayne State University.
(d) An investigator at the research center.

5. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Ptolemy I.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Nero.
(d) Cleopatra.

6. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Cadavers.
(b) Families.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Sorrow.

7. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Explosion.
(b) On-board fire.
(c) Death on impact.
(d) Missile attack.

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

9. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) How they died.
(b) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(c) Who their families are.
(d) Whether they gave their permission for this.

10. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(b) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(c) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(d) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.

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

12. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A pile of bricks.
(b) A linear impactor.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A car.

13. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Artists.
(c) Audiences.
(d) Scientists.

14. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Field research on human body decay.
(b) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(c) Cadaver reanimation.
(d) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.

15. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?
(a) Prosecute anyone who discloses the nature of the research.
(b) Describe the research in general terms.
(c) Deny any impropriety in advance.
(d) Refuse to disclose anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

2. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

3. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

4. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

5. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

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