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

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(b) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(c) Liquidation of internal organs.
(d) Persistence of putrescent odor.

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

4. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) They afford greater visibility.
(b) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(c) The flesh is firmer.
(d) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.

5. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(b) Liquidation of internal organs.
(c) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(d) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

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

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

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

5. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did injury analysis begin?

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

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

6. How does Mary Roach say cadavers were treated in early dissections?

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

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

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

10. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

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