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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Street theatre.
(b) Stand-up comedy.
(c) Opera.
(d) Tragedy.

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

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

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

5. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By seniority.
(c) By lottery.
(d) By nepotism.

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

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

8. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By eating them.
(b) By feeding it to dogs.
(c) By burying them.
(d) By selling them as meat.

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

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

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

12. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Often.
(b) Not very often.
(c) All the time.
(d) Hardly ever.

13. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Cause of death.
(b) Time of death.
(c) Age of the deceased.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

14. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies covered a large area.
(b) There were so many young people on board.
(c) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(d) The bodies were unrecognizable.

15. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(b) They are usually timed.
(c) Because they are working with human remains.
(d) They are superstitious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

3. How does Shanahan cope with his work?

4. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

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

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