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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 did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(b) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(c) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(d) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.

2. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Heirlooms.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Bodies.

3. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By sticking to protocols.
(b) By focusing on parts.
(c) By grieving with colleagues.
(d) By working to get justice in bombing cases.

4. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Bitter and rough.
(b) Sweet and cloying.
(c) Nauseating and sharp.
(d) Heady and unlike anything else.

5. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?
(a) At depressurization.
(b) At the initial explosion.
(c) At impact.
(d) At fragmentation of the aircraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?

2. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

4. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

5. Who is Mike Walsh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rick Lowden study?

2. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

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

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

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

6. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

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

8. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

9. What is the advantage of practicing surgery on a cadaver?

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

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