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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) Animals.
(c) Street people.
(d) Their dead relatives.

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

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

4. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a last chance to learn techniques.
(c) As a rare opportunity.
(d) As a form of punishment.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

4. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

5. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?

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