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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. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.
(b) A constant flow.
(c) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(d) Only rare amputations.

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

3. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Singing and reading.
(b) Practicing and being critiqued.
(c) Presenting papers.
(d) Teaching sections.

4. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(b) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.
(c) She tells herself the story of the person's life.
(d) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.

5. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?
(a) Finding patients or cadavers to train on.
(b) Keeping up with medical science.
(c) Getting training for surgeons.
(d) Learning the newest techniques.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

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

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

5. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

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