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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 were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

2. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?

3. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

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

5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did dissections of cadavers begin?

2. Why does Dennis Tobin say people fall down when shot?

3. When did injury analysis begin?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Mary Roach say that the British circumvent consent laws for using cadavers for research or training?

9. Why are human cadavers preferable to animals?

10. What kinds of incidents does Dennis Shanahan investigate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How effective is Mary Roach in presenting the controversy surrounding cadaver use? What techniques does she use? Does she give both sides of an issue? How does she use reason or emotions or humor?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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