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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.
(b) Violating ethics laws.
(c) Perjuring themselves.
(d) Offending families later.

2. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1847.

3. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His old friends.
(b) His former professors.
(c) His former patients.
(d) His enemies.

4. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Disclosure.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Families would object to it.
(d) Expense.

5. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Audiences.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Artists.
(d) Scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

2. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

3. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?

4. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

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

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