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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Face lift refresher.
(b) Wound repair.
(c) Brain trauma.
(d) Blunt force damage.

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

3. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Court martial.
(b) Discharge.
(c) Defunding.
(d) Arrest.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

3. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

5. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Sir Astley Cooper's stance on using cadavers in training?

2. How much does UM006's family know what the cadaver is being used for?

3. What were Shanahan's conclusions about the cause of the Flight 800 disaster?

4. What kinds of signs did the cadavers from Flight 800 have?

5. What was the result of the test Le Garde performed?

6. What part of the embalming procedure did Mary Roach witness?

7. How were morticians preparing bodies at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

8. Where did cadavers come from, in 18th century British surgeries?

9. What projects has the military used cadavers for, in Mary Roach's account?

10. Why does Dennis Tobin say people fall down when shot?

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