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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. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

3. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?

4. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

5. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

2. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

3. What does Rick Lowden study?

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

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

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

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

8. What kinds of signs did the cadavers from Flight 800 have?

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

10. What did Thomas Holmes do?

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 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

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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