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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 ingredient is used in water reduction?

2. What was surprise supposed to have done to a body before death?

3. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?

4. What is anastomosis?

5. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a mellified man?

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

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

5. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

6. What is plastination?

7. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?

8. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Americans are known for their technological optimism, that death can be defeated or overcome. What insight does Mary Roach's book give us into refusal to accept death?

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