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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. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

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

3. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

4. What does UM006 fall onto?

5. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the result of the test Le Garde performed?

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

5. What did Thomas Holmes do?

6. What are the three stages of decay, as Mary Roach describes them?

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

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

9. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

10. When did injury analysis begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Americans are known for their technological optimism, that death can be defeated or overcome. What insight does Mary Roach's book give us into refusal to accept death?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What pressing question in modern society could cadavers be used for now? Make a case--serious or humorous or irreverent--for where cadavers could bring value to modern society.

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