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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 the surgeon use to open H's chest?

2. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

3. What is the result of water reduction?

4. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?

5. Where does Mary Roach say medical school skeletons used to come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are animals disposed of at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Mary Roach's account?

2. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

3. What process is Wiigh-Masak advocating in Sweden?

4. Who typically sold body parts, and for what purposes?

5. What was H being used for at the UCSF Medical Center when Mary Roach was observing?

6. What practice came from experiments from V. N. Shamov?

7. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

8. How did Barbet test the strength of the palms for holding up a person's weight?

9. What percentage of cadavers donated to science become anatomy lab dissections?

10. What is a mellified man?

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

Who is the primary audience for Mary Roach's book? Who is she writing for? Whose questions is she answering?

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