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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 did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

2. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?

3. What is a mellified man used for?

4. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?

5. What is 'water reduction'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is plastination?

3. Who was Dr. Joseph Guillotin and what was his opinion about the ethics of decapitation as a method of execution?

4. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?

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

6. What does Mary Roach say she wants to become if she donates her body?

7. What does Mary Roach say she ultimately wants to do with her body?

8. What test did French physician Brown-Sequard perform?

9. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

10. What is a mellified man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

What material is missing from 'Stiff', and what is the effect of its absence? What, if anything, should Mary Roach have covered which she did not?

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