View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?

2. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?

3. What did Robert White have some success with?

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

5. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

2. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

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

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

5. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the questions raised in 'Stiff' are the result of industrial modernism--what other social changes are they related to? How do you see the questions presented in 'Stiff' arise in other fields, such as health care or insurance or education, or politics, for instance?

Essay Topic 2

What is the fascination in books like Mary Roach's, and TV shows like Bones or Crime Scene Investigators--what questions or interests are they tapping into in their audiences? Is it the living drama of the people performing the investigations, or the investigations themselves that create the interest?

Essay Topic 3

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 744 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample