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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Safer doors.
(b) Safer tires.
(c) Safer windshields.
(d) Roll bars.

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

3. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1972.

4. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Body armor.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Bullet-proof vests.
(d) Boots.

5. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Death on impact.
(b) Missile attack.
(c) On-board fire.
(d) Explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

3. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

4. Who is Mike Walsh?

5. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much does UM006's family know what the cadaver is being used for?

2. Why was TWA Flight 800 so emotional for Shanahan?

3. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

4. What were Shanahan's conclusions about the cause of the Flight 800 disaster?

5. How does Mary Roach describe the memorial service for unnamed cadavers at UCSF?

6. How does Mary Roach say cadavers have been treated, historically?

7. What kinds of things does Mary Roach say have resulted from tests like the one on UM006?

8. What is the first experience of cadavers that Mary Roach describes?

9. What does Rick Lowden study?

10. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of dead bodies?

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