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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. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Live criminals.
(c) Executed criminals.
(d) Unwilling victims.

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

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

4. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Ptolemy I.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Nero.
(d) Alcibiades.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?

3. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

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

5. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

(see the answer key)

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