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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 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.

2. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were not burned.
(b) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(c) Bodies were torn apart.
(d) Bodies were not widely distributed.

3. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?
(a) A month.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) Three weeks.

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Purge.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Overflow.
(d) Vomit.

5. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

2. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

3. What causes bloat in cadavers?

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

5. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Duncan McPherson say people fall down when shot?

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

5. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

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

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

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

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

10. What test was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to perform in 1893?

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