Multiple Choice - Chapter 2, Crimes of Anatomy
1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF? a) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers. b) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science. c) Anatomy training. d) A face-lift refresher.
2. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF? a) Families. b) Sorrow. c) Cadavers.
d) Teachers.
3. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
a) Presenting papers. b) Teaching sections. c) Singing and reading. d) Practicing and being critiqued.
4. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF? a) A cadaver's family's satisfaction. b) A tribute to a cadaver. c) A demonstration on a cadaver.
d) A cadaver's apparent patience.
5. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach? a) Tried to increase the rate of people donating their bodies to science. b) Tried to instill respect for the dead in students. c) Tried to develop techniques that allow more students to learn from each civilized.
d) Tried to compensate families for donating deceased family members.
6. Who is Hugh Patterson? a) A writer. b) A surgeon. c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School. d) A cadaver.
7. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account? a) With morbid humor. b) Contemptuously. c) Respectfully.
d) Irreverently.
8. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account? a) Nero. b) Cleopatra. c) Alcibiades.
d) Ptolemy I.
9. Who was the 'father of anatomy'? a) Sarpedon. b) Herophilus. c) Asclepius.
d) Apollo.
10. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect? a) Disinterred dead people. b) Unwilling victims. c) Live criminals.
d) Executed criminals.
11. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
a) Suicides. b) Disinterred dead people. c) Executed criminals. d) Dead soldiers.
12. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low? a) Their students. b) Street people. c) Their dead relatives.
d) Animals.
13. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves? a) Clothing. b) Bodies. c) Heirlooms.
d) Jewelry.
14. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists? a) Thieves. b) Body snatchers. c) Resurrectionists.
d) Hoodlums.
15. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up? a) His old friends. b) His former patients. c) His former professors.
d) His enemies.
16. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century? a) Tragedy. b) Street theatre. c) Stand-up comedy.
d) Opera.
17. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains? a) By selling them as meat. b) By eating them. c) By feeding it to dogs.
d) By burying them.
18. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from? a) Murderers. b) Cemeteries. c) Teaching hospitals.
d) Churches.