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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?
(a) High-speed rear-impact.
(b) High-speed side-impact.
(c) Low-speed side-impact.
(d) Low-speed head-on.

2. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How rescue techniques can save lives.
(b) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(c) How much force a soldier can withstand.
(d) How to design helmets.

3. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Dead soldiers.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

4. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Criminal investigations.
(b) Families.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) Raw science.

5. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.
(b) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.
(c) Because it relies on legal sophistries.
(d) Because some research requires whole bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

2. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?

3. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

4. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

5. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

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