Stage 20 Culture Quiz

The Museum at Alexandria: (check all that apply)

• Was funded by Roman senators

• attracted scholars from all over the Greek world

• Contained a famous Library

• was a tourist attraction for dinosaur enthusiasts.

Hippocrates was: (check all which apply)

• the founder of medical science

• a famous anatomist

• An Egyptian priest of Isis

• A Greek doctor

Alexandria was a particularly good place for studying anatomy because:

• It was acceptable to dissect mummies from the numerous pyramids.

• Egyptians had gained a limited knowledge of anatomy

• Since it was a large city, there were plenty of people on whom to practice medicine.

• The Museum contained vast stores of knowledge on anatomy

Herophilus was:

• An Alexandrian anatomist

• A Greek inventor

• A Roman senator

• An American idiot

Early doctors:

• did not understand anything about anatomy

• put great emphasis on hygiene, diet, exercise, and bathing

• could preform heart transplants

• believed that only the gods could cure a sick person.

In the first century AD a doctor would be able: (check all which apply)

• to treat minor ailments with medicine

• to perform minor surgery, such as tonsillectomy

• to tie veins and arteries

• to set broken bones

Every prescription of doctors of the 1st century AD was useful.

• True

• False: Doctors of the 1st century AD did to prescribe any medicine

• False: A 1st century doctor was only allowed to treat broken bones

• False: many prescriptions were useless, some were harmful.

Midwives were:

• The second of three wives each Roman might have.

• an untrained slave-girl, who would help in bathing Roman women

• female doctors who aided women in childbirth

• Greek doctors who prescribed birth control

Greek doctors like Petro:

• Were incredibly uncommon, only the wealthiest citizens could see them.

• insisted on cleanliness, because they disliked seeing viscera.

• insisted on cleanliness, because they wanted to reduce the chance of infection.

• Were unaware that unclean tools could cause infection.

The book Elements: (check all which apply)

• was written by Euclid

• summarized all knowledge of geometry up to that point

• was used as school textbook until relatively recently

• was written in Latin, so that only Romans could read it.