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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?

2. What is anastomosis?

3. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?

4. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

5. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Pierre Barbet's conclusion about Armailhac's request?

2. What does Mary Roach say she wants to become if she donates her body?

3. What does Mary Roach find is the Catholic perspective on composting human remains?

4. What process is Wiigh-Masak advocating in Sweden?

5. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

6. What is plastination?

7. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

8. What percentage of cadavers donated to science become anatomy lab dissections?

9. What does Mary Roach say she ultimately wants to do with her body?

10. What was Frederick Zugibe's test and his conclusion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which use of cadavers is most objectionable, in your perspective? Make an argument for one of the uses Mary Roach describes in 'Stiff'.

Essay Topic 2

How does Mary Roach use voice and tone to probe into and back away from the complexities surrounding cadavers? What are her primary tones, and how does she modulate them to handle different emotional situations?

Essay Topic 3

What pressing question in modern society could cadavers be used for now? Make a case--serious or humorous or irreverent--for where cadavers could bring value to modern society.

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