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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. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.
(b) A constant flow.
(c) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(d) Only rare amputations.

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?
(a) By merit.
(b) By seniority.
(c) By nepotism.
(d) By lottery.

3. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A tribute to a cadaver.
(b) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(c) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.
(d) A demonstration on a cadaver.

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

5. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Control.
(b) Clear visualization.
(c) Freedom from liability.
(d) Emotional distance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?

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. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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