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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?
(a) When studies look at bone fractures.
(b) When language and emotional trauma are being studied.
(c) When responses are considered.
(d) When functioning organs are required.

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

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

6. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?
(a) Guinea pigs.
(b) Live human convicts.
(c) Apes.
(d) Human cadavers.

7. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) The flesh is firmer.
(b) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(c) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.
(d) They afford greater visibility.

8. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) High-speed impact studies.
(b) Decomposition studies.
(c) Geriatric studies.
(d) Pediatric studies.

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

10. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) With morbid humor.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Irreverently.
(d) Contemptuously.

11. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(b) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(c) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(d) Liquidation of internal organs.

12. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried where they fell.
(b) They were buried in Arlington.
(c) They were shipped home and buried.
(d) They were mummified and collected.

13. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?
(a) The smaller the cavity, the deeper the wound.
(b) The bigger the cavity, the greater the stopping power.
(c) The smaller the cavity, the greater the psychological impact of the shot.
(d) The bigger the cavity, the deadlier the bullet.

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

15. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(b) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(c) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(d) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

2. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

3. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?

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

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