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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 does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

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

4. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What test was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to perform in 1893?

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

5. What did Thomas Holmes do?

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

7. Who was UM006, and what was he being used for?

8. What does Rick Lowden study?

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

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

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

Having read 'Stiff', would you give your body to science? Explain why or why not. Would you stipulate what kinds of uses your body could or could not be put to?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize Mary Roach's intellect, in regard to how she navigates this challenging and sensitive topic? What kind of a person is she, and how do you think she would handle other challenging situations or topics?

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