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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. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By sticking to protocols.
(b) By working to get justice in bombing cases.
(c) By grieving with colleagues.
(d) By focusing on parts.

2. What was Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Retrieve bullets from war dead.
(b) Implant bullets surgically.
(c) Shoot livestock.
(d) Shoot cadavers.

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

4. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Unwilling victims.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Live criminals.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Herophilus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Asclepius.
(d) Sarpedon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

2. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

4. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

5. What does UM006 fall onto?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the result of the test Le Garde performed?

2. How were morticians preparing bodies at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

3. What was Sir Astley Cooper's stance on using cadavers in training?

4. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

5. What does Rick Lowden study?

6. What did Thomas Holmes do?

7. Why is Shanahan confident about air travel in spite of his work?

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

9. What is the advantage of practicing surgery on a cadaver?

10. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

(see the answer keys)

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