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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?
(a) They have had too many sexual partners.
(b) They have often been raped.
(c) They have had many children.
(d) They have repeated bouts of gonorrhea.

2. What disease does Humes purposefully leave out of the notes of the autopsy?
(a) Addison's disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Polio.
(d) Prostate cancer.

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

4. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?
(a) They have to be comfortable in the limelight.
(b) They have to prefer academic medicine.
(c) They have to be emotional.
(d) They have to hate publicity.

5. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?
(a) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.
(b) The knife wounds did not match the murder weapon.
(c) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.
(d) There was blood flowing the wrong direction on the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Baden's patient at the end of Chapter Two suffers from what?

2. What does Baden find caused the death of the woman at the fund raising dinner?

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

4. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?

5. During Chapter Two, what do the doctors at the table of the woman who died believe was her cause of deathf?

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