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

2. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Water impact.
(b) Fire.
(c) Fragmentation.
(d) Ground impact.

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

4. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Hands.
(b) Feet.
(c) Faces.
(d) Torsos.

5. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Postmortem decapitation.
(c) Distribution.
(d) Burns.

Short Answer Questions

1. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

3. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?

4. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

4. What was Sir Astley Cooper's stance on using cadavers in training?

5. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

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

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

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

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

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

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