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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. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Large charges for small procedures.
(b) Money for undergoing surgery.
(c) To watch surgeries.
(d) Unnecessary procedures.

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.
(b) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(c) A tribute to a cadaver.
(d) A demonstration on a cadaver.

3. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?
(a) By neglecting to tell families at all.
(b) By using homeless people.
(c) By importing bodies from Eastern Europe.
(d) By treating cadavers as parts.

4. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Practicing and being critiqued.
(b) Teaching sections.
(c) Singing and reading.
(d) Presenting papers.

5. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?
(a) That it would be deadlier than the 45-caliber.
(b) That with new bullets, it would be more destructive than the 45-caliber.
(c) That it would kill from a greater distance than the 45-caliber.
(d) That it would have the same stopping power as the 45-caliber.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

4. Who is UM006?

5. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rick Lowden study?

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

4. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

5. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

6. What kinds of signs did the cadavers from Flight 800 have?

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

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

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

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

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