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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 does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because they know they have been shot.
(b) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(c) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(d) Because the pain is debilitating.

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To attract flies to be studied.
(b) To train dogs to find bodies.
(c) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(d) For theme parks and haunted houses.

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

4. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When functioning organs are required.
(b) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(c) When responses are considered.
(d) When studies look at bone fractures.

5. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(b) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(c) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

3. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

4. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

5. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

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

4. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

5. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

6. Why does Dennis Tobin say people fall down when shot?

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

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

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

10. What does Rick Lowden study?

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