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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Ground impact.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Fragmentation.
(d) Fire.

2. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(b) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.
(c) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(d) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Wool.
(b) Internal organs.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Stuffing.

4. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?
(a) Bodies were torn apart.
(b) Bodies were not burned.
(c) Bodies were not pierced by foreign objects.
(d) Bodies were not widely distributed.

5. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A sensor suit.
(b) A loincloth.
(c) A hood.
(d) A helmet.

6. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Family origins of cadavers.
(b) The moment of death of tissues.
(c) Origins and movements of tissues.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.

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

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

9. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(b) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.
(c) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(d) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.

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

11. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A dashboard.
(b) A steering wheel.
(c) The floor.
(d) A cushion.

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

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

14. 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) They afford greater visibility.
(d) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.

15. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Liquid.
(b) Overflow.
(c) Purge.
(d) Vomit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

3. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

4. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

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