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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 early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

3. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

4. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

5. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the advantage of practicing surgery on a cadaver?

6. Why are human cadavers preferable to animals?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Mary Roach's relationship with the experts she consults with? What authority does her status as 'writer' give her on the question of cadavers and dead bodies? Does she have more or less authority than certain experts? What could she do with the authority she gained by writing the book?

Essay Topic 2

How does reading 'Stiff' affect the way you live your days, making decisions that impact your body, which will one day, one way or another, be a cadaver?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize Mary Roach's religious views and sensibility? What do you think are her religious beliefs, based on the book?

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