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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 wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Who their families are.
(b) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(c) How they died.
(d) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.

2. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Asclepius.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Sarpedon.

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Nero.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Ptolemy I.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

3. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

4. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

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