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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 does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Money for undergoing surgery.
(b) To watch surgeries.
(c) Unnecessary procedures.
(d) Large charges for small procedures.

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

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

4. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Artists.
(d) Audiences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

2. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

3. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

4. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

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

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