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

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

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

4. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mary Roach say cadavers have been treated, historically?

4. What does Rick Lowden study?

5. What projects has the military used cadavers for, in Mary Roach's account?

6. What cases does Mary Roach describe in which people murdered others in order to sell their bodies to surgeons?

7. Describe the procedure in which UM006 was used.

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

9. Where did surgeons used to learn their techniques before they used cadavers?

10. What did Thomas Holmes do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What techniques does Mary Roach use for keeping you interested as a reader? Is there an arc to this book? Does it build in intensity? Does it wander? How much did you, as a reader, have to work to remain interested and attentive?

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

Many of the questions raised in 'Stiff' are the result of industrial modernism--what other social changes are they related to? How do you see the questions presented in 'Stiff' arise in other fields, such as health care or insurance or education, or politics, for instance?

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