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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Ptolemy I.
(b) Nero.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Alcibiades.

2. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Audiences.
(b) Artists.
(c) Policemen.
(d) Scientists.

3. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Sarpedon.
(b) Herophilus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Asclepius.

4. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Getting training for surgeons.
(b) Keeping up with medical science.
(c) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(d) Learning the newest techniques.

5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(b) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(c) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
(d) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. Who is Hugh Patterson?

4. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

5. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

(see the answer key)

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