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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which organ is particularly important for detecting poison?
(a) The appendix.
(b) The tongue.
(c) The eye.
(d) The spleen.

2. What was the outside ME's issued cause of death in the Stewart case?
(a) Death by drug overdose.
(b) Death by choke hold.
(c) Death by alcohol overdose.
(d) Death by injury to the spine.

3. What causes the skin and blood of a victim to turn cherry-pink?
(a) Arsenic poisoning.
(b) Ricin poisoning.
(c) Cyanide poisoning.
(d) Carbon monoxide poisoning.

4. What does Baden claim about the "cardiorespiratory arrest" cause of death issued for Joseph?
(a) It assumes no unnatural cause.
(b) It assumes murder.
(c) It is a wastebasket diagnosis.
(d) It is an accurate diagnosis.

5. What is rigor mortis?
(a) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.
(b) A method to determine time of death that uses body temperature.
(c) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body color.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?

2. What does Baden note his profession was believed to be?

3. What punishment did Carl Coppolino receive for the murder of his wife?

4. What does the group find has happened to Kennedy's brain?

5. How did Jerald Sklar claim Catherine Fried had killed her husband?

(see the answer key)

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