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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. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Their students.
(b) Street people.
(c) Animals.
(d) Their dead relatives.

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Freedom from liability.
(b) Emotional distance.
(c) Clear visualization.
(d) Control.

3. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(b) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(c) She tells herself the story of the person's life.
(d) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Who their families are.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(d) How they died.

5. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Live criminals.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Unwilling victims.
(d) Disinterred dead people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

5. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

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