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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 did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

3. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?

5. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Sir Astley Cooper's stance on using cadavers in training?

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

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

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

6. Where did cadavers come from, in 18th century British surgeries?

7. How does Mary Roach describe making cadavers bearable?

8. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of dead bodies?

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

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

Essay Topic 2

How has the ability to decide the moment of death affected modern society? Cite a case from the news or from personal experience, in which there was contention over when a person could be considered dead.

Essay Topic 3

How has the practice of burying the dead changed in the recent past, as people have become more aware of their influence on the environment?

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