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

2. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(b) They are superstitious.
(c) They are usually timed.
(d) Because they are working with human remains.

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

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

5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
(b) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(c) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(d) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

2. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

3. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

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

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