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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baden blame for the increase in mercury scare dsuring his time as ME?
(a) He blames more accurate testing.
(b) He blames infected swordfish.
(c) He blames environmental factors.
(d) He blames improper testing.

2. What was missing from the body of the bishop on Flight 66?
(a) A ring and a belt.
(b) A ring, cross, and gold wristwatch.
(c) His left leg.
(d) His right arm.

3. What military rule hindered the MIA team until 1985?
(a) Dental records were carried on board with their owners.
(b) Xrays were not kept.
(c) Dental records were not kept.
(d) Military planes did not keep record of the passengers.

4. What does Baden believe is the end goal of the DA?
(a) To find justice for the family.
(b) To get a conviction, regardless of truth.
(c) To pursue the truth at all consequences.
(d) To err on the side of caution for the police.

5. What piece of evidence was crucial to the case in 1910?
(a) The scar on the torso.
(b) The scar on the scalp.
(c) The scar on the arm.
(d) The scar on the pelvis.

6. What group was set up in 1977 to help explain the Kennedy assassination?
(a) The Board of Presidential Death.
(b) The Federal Investigative Bureau.
(c) The Select Committee on Assassinations.
(d) The CIA.

7. What are signs of strangulation?
(a) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the nose.
(b) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the eye.
(c) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the lungs.
(d) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the feet.

8. 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.

9. Why did Ann Hart sue the government?
(a) Misidentifying her husband's remains.
(b) Claiming her husband went AWOL.
(c) Sexual harassment.
(d) Misidentifying her remains.

10. The baby Baden is called to investigate immediately following the death of the lady at the benefit died from what?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Neglect.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Pneumonia.

11. Why did Baden delay the autopsy report in the case of Willie Welch?
(a) He was waiting for toxicology reports.
(b) He was unwilling to claim Welch was stabbed.
(c) He was reluctant to help the DA.
(d) He was arguing with Dr. Rho about cause of death.

12. What did Humes do with his original notes from the autopsy?
(a) He published them.
(b) He burned them.
(c) He lost them.
(d) He edited them.

13. What does Baden note is the desire of the DAs office in terms of the ME?
(a) The DA wants the ME to answer to political pressure.
(b) The DA wants the ME to be completely truthful.
(c) The DA wants the ME to lie.
(d) The DA wants the ME to bend findings to meet his or her needs.

14. What two disciplines does Baden claim are combined in the medical examiner's position?
(a) Science and politics.
(b) Science and law.
(c) Politics and finance.
(d) Politics and law.

15. What is the rule for jurisdiction when it comes to a dismembered body?
(a) Whoever has the hands has the case.
(b) Whoever has the brain has the case.
(c) Whoever has the heart has the case.
(d) Whoever has the legs has the case.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the verdict in the Andre case?

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

3. Which autopsies are done incompetently much of the time?

4. Why does Baden believe Levine was convicted at all costs?

5. How are the majority of bodies identified?

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