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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. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

3. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

4. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?

5. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

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

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

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

6. What cases does Mary Roach describe in which people murdered others in order to sell their bodies to surgeons?

7. What test was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to perform in 1893?

8. What did Thomas Holmes do?

9. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

10. What projects has the military used cadavers for, in Mary Roach's account?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does reading 'Stiff' affect the way you live your days, making decisions that impact your body, which will one day, one way or another, be a cadaver?

Essay Topic 2

Having read 'Stiff', would you give your body to science? Explain why or why not. Would you stipulate what kinds of uses your body could or could not be put to?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize Mary Roach's intellect, in regard to how she navigates this challenging and sensitive topic? What kind of a person is she, and how do you think she would handle other challenging situations or topics?

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