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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 kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

2. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

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

4. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?

5. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Shanahan's conclusions about the cause of the Flight 800 disaster?

2. How does consent figure in the use of cadavers for medical training?

3. What does Rick Lowden study?

4. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

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

6. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

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

8. Why was TWA Flight 800 so emotional for Shanahan?

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

10. How does Mary Roach describe the memorial service for unnamed cadavers at UCSF?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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

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