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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 is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(b) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(c) The skills have to be taught somehow.
(d) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

3. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

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

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