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

2. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(b) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(c) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(d) The skills have to be taught somehow.

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Cemeteries.
(b) Churches.
(c) Murderers.
(d) Teaching hospitals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

2. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

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

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

5. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

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