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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 the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?

2. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?

3. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

4. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

5. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why are human cadavers preferable to animals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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