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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. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

2. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

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

4. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

5. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

6. What is plastination?

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

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

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

10. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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 3

How does Mary Roach use voice and tone to probe into and back away from the complexities surrounding cadavers? What are her primary tones, and how does she modulate them to handle different emotional situations?

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