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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. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?
(a) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.
(b) Cadavers are cheaper to work with than people.
(c) Cadavers are the best stand-ins for actual human beings.
(d) Cadavers can be studied in invasive ways that live subjects cannot.

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

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

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A writer.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) A surgeon.
(d) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?

2. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?

3. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?

5. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rick Lowden study?

2. What does Mary Roach say was the practice with dead soldiers in the Civil War?

3. What did Thomas Holmes do?

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

5. What is the advantage of practicing surgery on a cadaver?

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

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

8. What cases does Mary Roach describe in which people murdered others in order to sell their bodies to surgeons?

9. Why is Shanahan confident about air travel in spite of his work?

10. How does consent figure in the use of cadavers for medical training?

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