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

2. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Resurrection.
(b) Revitalization.
(c) Mortuary science.
(d) Embalming.

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

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

5. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(b) The bodies were unrecognizable.
(c) There were so many young people on board.
(d) The bodies covered a large area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

3. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the memorial service for unnamed cadavers at UCSF?

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

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

4. What does Rick Lowden study?

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

6. What kinds of things does Mary Roach say have resulted from tests like the one on UM006?

7. What are the three stages of decay, as Mary Roach describes them?

8. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of dead bodies?

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

10. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

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