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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) Brain trauma.
(b) Wound repair.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Blunt force damage.

2. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.
(b) Because some research requires whole bodies.
(c) Because it relies on legal sophistries.
(d) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.

3. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Safer tires.
(b) Safer doors.
(c) Roll bars.
(d) Safer windshields.

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

5. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A loincloth.
(b) A sensor suit.
(c) A helmet.
(d) A hood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

2. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?

3. What does UM006 fall onto?

4. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?

5. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

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

7. What is the first experience of cadavers that Mary Roach describes?

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

9. When did injury analysis begin?

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

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