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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. Who is Kevin McCabe?

2. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?

3. What does Mary Roach say funeral reform was driven by?

4. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Frederick Zugibe's test and his conclusion?

3. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

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

5. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

6. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

If you could eliminate one question or technique that has arisen out of modern science and technology regarding the treatment of cadavers, what would it be, and why?

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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