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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 led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

2. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

3. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

4. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?

5. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did injury analysis begin?

2. Where did surgeons used to learn their techniques before they used cadavers?

3. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

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

5. How does Mary Roach say that the British circumvent consent laws for using cadavers for research or training?

6. What does Rick Lowden study?

7. How does Mary Roach say cadavers were treated in early dissections?

8. Why does Dennis Tobin say people fall down when shot?

9. Why does Duncan McPherson say people fall down when shot?

10. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Mary Roach's central concern in 'Stiff'? Her book covers a wide variety of topics regarding dead bodies. What is her central interest--Or is this book a wide-ranging 'exploration' that is not tightly centered on an overarching question or concern?

Essay Topic 2

What techniques does Mary Roach use for keeping you interested as a reader? Is there an arc to this book? Does it build in intensity? Does it wander? How much did you, as a reader, have to work to remain interested and attentive?

Essay Topic 3

What is the fascination in books like Mary Roach's, and TV shows like Bones or Crime Scene Investigators--what questions or interests are they tapping into in their audiences? Is it the living drama of the people performing the investigations, or the investigations themselves that create the interest?

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