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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. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Clothing.

2. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Cadavers.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Families.

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

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

5. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) Contemptuously.
(c) With morbid humor.
(d) Irreverently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

2. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

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

4. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

5. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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