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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. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

2. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

3. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?

4. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

5. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

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

5. What part of the embalming procedure did Mary Roach witness?

6. Why are human cadavers preferable to animals?

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

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

9. What did Thomas Holmes do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the primary audience for Mary Roach's book? Who is she writing for? Whose questions is she answering?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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