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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are most people identified in a mass disaster?
(a) Personal property.
(b) Family identification.
(c) Fingerprints and dental records.
(d) Identification tags.

2. What punishment did Carl Coppolino receive for the murder of his wife?
(a) A life sentence.
(b) Nothing; he was acquitted.
(c) The death penalty.
(d) Twelve and one-half years in jail.

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 color.
(c) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.

4. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?
(a) The status increased.
(b) The status was lost.
(c) There was no status.
(d) The status stayed the same.

5. Who was the first victim on which autopsy was performed in a murder investigation?
(a) Samuell Yeoungman.
(b) Francis Carpenter.
(c) George Harlington.
(d) Janet Robinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is algor mortis?

2. What does Baden claim happens at the site of an accident?

3. What did the funeral director miss when preparing the body for funeral?

4. What did Baden find when Carmella's body was exhumed?

5. Why was Jaroslawicz's body preserved so well?

(see the answer key)

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