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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 class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Wound repair.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Blunt force damage.

2. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Hands.
(b) Faces.
(c) Feet.
(d) Torsos.

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

4. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Thieves.
(b) Resurrectionists.
(c) Hoodlums.
(d) Body snatchers.

5. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By selling them as meat.
(b) By burying them.
(c) By feeding it to dogs.
(d) By eating them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

(see the answer key)

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