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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) Bodies.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Clothing.

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

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Churches.
(b) Teaching hospitals.
(c) Murderers.
(d) Cemeteries.

4. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She thinks of them as being made of wax.
(b) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.
(c) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(d) She tells herself the story of the person's life.

5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
(b) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science.
(c) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students.
(d) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

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

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