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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 has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

2. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

3. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

4. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?

5. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Mary Roach say was the practice with dead soldiers in the Civil War?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What material is missing from 'Stiff', and what is the effect of its absence? What, if anything, should Mary Roach have covered which she did not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

If you could eliminate one question or technique that has arisen out of modern science and technology regarding the treatment of cadavers, what would it be, and why?

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