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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 experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
2. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?
3. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?
4. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?
5. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?
Short Essay Questions
1. What process is Wiigh-Masak advocating in Sweden?
2. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?
3. Who typically sold body parts, and for what purposes?
4. What was Pierre Barbet's conclusion about Armailhac's request?
5. What is a mellified man?
6. What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community, according to Mary Roach?
7. What did Dr. Robert White do with a monkey brain, and what was Mary Roach's question for Dr. Robert White?
8. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?
9. What part of the history of cremation does Mary Roach describe?
10. What was H being used for at the UCSF Medical Center when Mary Roach was observing?
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
How has the practice of burying the dead changed in the recent past, as people have become more aware of their influence on the environment?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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