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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Crimes of Anatomy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Training.
(b) Accurate medical knowledge.
(c) Assistants.
(d) Anesthesia.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Street theatre.
(b) Opera.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Tragedy.

3. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Resurrectionists.
(b) Body snatchers.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Hoodlums.

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

5. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A demonstration on a cadaver.
(b) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(c) A tribute to a cadaver.
(d) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

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

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

5. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

(see the answer key)

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