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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Bullet-proof vests.
(b) Boots.
(c) Body armor.
(d) Helmets.

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

4. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Dead soldiers.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

5. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(b) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(c) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.
(d) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.

6. What does Rick Lowden study?
(a) The legality of cadaver and animal tests.
(b) The effects of the temporary stretch cavity.
(c) The corrosion of bullets in human flesh.
(d) The ethics of using cadavers in tests.

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

8. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(b) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(c) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(d) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.

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

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

11. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Unwilling victims.
(d) Live criminals.

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

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

14. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By seniority.
(d) By nepotism.

15. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Hoodlums.
(b) Resurrectionists.
(c) Body snatchers.
(d) Thieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

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

4. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?

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

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