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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 is the result of water reduction?

2. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

3. What did Frederick Zugibe test?

4. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?

5. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

2. What part of the history of cremation does Mary Roach describe?

3. What is a mellified man?

4. What is plastination?

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

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

7. What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community, according to Mary Roach?

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

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

10. What did Dr. Robert White do with a monkey brain, and what was Mary Roach's question for Dr. Robert White?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Having read 'Stiff', would you give your body to science? Explain why or why not. Would you stipulate what kinds of uses your body could or could not be put to?

Essay Topic 2

Americans are known for their technological optimism, that death can be defeated or overcome. What insight does Mary Roach's book give us into refusal to accept death?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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