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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 surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Assistants.
(b) Training.
(c) Anesthesia.
(d) Accurate medical knowledge.

2. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A writer.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A surgeon.

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

4. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(b) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
(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 is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(b) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(c) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(d) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

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

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

4. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

5. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

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