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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Baden's first homicide case?
(a) A shoot out in a hotel.
(b) A hit and run.
(c) A woman who poisons her husband.
(d) A man who kills his wife's lover.

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

4. What does Baden note in Chapter Two always fascinated him?
(a) Death.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Politics.
(d) Suicide.

5. What does the group find has happened to Kennedy's brain?
(a) It has rotted away.
(b) It has been eaten by rodents.
(c) It has disappeared from the archives.
(d) It has been donated to science.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Baden believe is a reflection of the way people live?

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

4. What does Baden note about the FBI photographer at the scene of the autopsy?

5. What is algor mortis?

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