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

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

3. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Herophilus.
(b) Sarpedon.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Asclepius.

4. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Assistants.
(b) Anesthesia.
(c) Accurate medical knowledge.
(d) Training.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

3. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

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

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

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