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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 did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

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

3. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

5. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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

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

6. What is plastination?

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

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

9. What does Mary Roach find is the Catholic perspective on composting human remains?

10. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If you could eliminate one question or technique that has arisen out of modern science and technology regarding the treatment of cadavers, what would it be, and why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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