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

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

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

4. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) They do not bleed.
(b) She does not have to interact with them.
(c) They cannot sue for malpractice.
(d) They let you try the procedure over and over again.

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Heirlooms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

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

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

5. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

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