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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 were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By burying them.
(b) By feeding it to dogs.
(c) By eating them.
(d) By selling them as meat.

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

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.
(b) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(c) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.
(d) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Animals.
(b) Their students.
(c) Their dead relatives.
(d) Street people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

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

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

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

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