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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. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A surgeon.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A writer.

2. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?
(a) A means of seeing humanity even in the cadaver.
(b) A technique for keeping control during surgery.
(c) A coping mechanism.
(d) A way to keep from cracking up during a procedure.

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

4. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(b) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(c) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(d) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.

5. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) To watch surgeries.
(b) Unnecessary procedures.
(c) Large charges for small procedures.
(d) Money for undergoing surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

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

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

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

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