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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. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Heirlooms.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Bodies.

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) With morbid humor.
(c) Contemptuously.
(d) Irreverently.

3. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By seniority.
(d) By nepotism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

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

3. Who is Hugh Patterson?

4. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

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

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