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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 a mellified man?

2. What was Barbet skeptical about?

3. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?

4. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

5. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is plastination?

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

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

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

5. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

6. What is a mellified man?

7. What was Pierre Barbet's conclusion about Armailhac's request?

8. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

10. What does Mary Roach find is the Catholic perspective on composting human remains?

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

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

How effective is Mary Roach in presenting the controversy surrounding cadaver use? What techniques does she use? Does she give both sides of an issue? How does she use reason or emotions or humor?

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