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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 position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Driving.
(b) Fetal.
(c) Lying down.
(d) Sprawling.

2. 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 fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(c) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(d) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.

3. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Bureaucratic.
(b) Economic.
(c) Sociopolitical.
(d) Federal.

4. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
(a) Face injuries.
(b) Broken bones.
(c) Organ injuries.
(d) Brain and central nervous system injuries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

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

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

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

5. Who is Mike Walsh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

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

3. How does Mary Roach say cadavers have been treated, historically?

4. Why was TWA Flight 800 so emotional for Shanahan?

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

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

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

8. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

9. Where did surgeons used to learn their techniques before they used cadavers?

10. How does Mary Roach say that the British circumvent consent laws for using cadavers for research or training?

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