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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 did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
(a) A face-lift refresher.
(b) Anatomy training.
(c) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science.
(d) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers.

2. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His old friends.
(b) His enemies.
(c) His former patients.
(d) His former professors.

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

4. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Singing and reading.
(b) Presenting papers.
(c) Teaching sections.
(d) Practicing and being critiqued.

5. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because they are working with human remains.
(b) They are usually timed.
(c) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(d) They are superstitious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

2. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

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

4. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

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

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