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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 ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

2. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

3. What kind of mummies were sold in 18th century Alexandria?

4. Why does Mary Roach decide not decide to give her body to The University of New Mexico?

5. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

6. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

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

9. What percentage of cadavers donated to science become anatomy lab dissections?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which use of cadavers is most objectionable, in your perspective? Make an argument for one of the uses Mary Roach describes in 'Stiff'.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What material is missing from 'Stiff', and what is the effect of its absence? What, if anything, should Mary Roach have covered which she did not?

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