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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Baden's rebuttal to Ferrer's accusation that he had hired four people without authorization?
(a) That he had hired them, but without pay.
(b) That he did not have the authority to hire anyone without Ferrer's approval.
(c) That he had, in fact, done so.
(d) That he had not hired anyone.

3. How often could autopsies be performed in Massachusetts?
(a) Every day.
(b) Every four years.
(c) Once every ten years.
(d) Every year.

4. 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.

5. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?
(a) Both were trying to cover up the truth.
(b) Neither had previously done an autopsy this complex.
(c) Both were hired by the family.
(d) Neither were in the military, and thus, did not have clearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?

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

3. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?

4. What do the police claim Frank Falco used to pretend he had a gun?

5. What causes the skin and blood of a victim to turn cherry-pink?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Humes' excuse about the faulty autopsy, and is this excuse valid?

2. What does Baden note in Chapter One is the price of fame when a celebrity dies, and why?

3. Explain the circumstances surrounding the guilty verdict of Harvey Crippen.

4. Explain Baden's experience of the convergence of hospital medicine and the morgue, and why the event had an impact on him.

5. Explain why Baden believes coroners are often in trouble as a result of their positions.

6. Discuss the symptoms of strychnine.

7. List the three tests used to determine how long someone has been dead, and mention what they are.

8. Describe how Baden explains why the father of the female drug addict in Chapter Two has little emotion.

9. In the end of Chapter One, the report given to the FBI suggests two shooters. Explain the event that prompted the committee to suggest this.

10. Explain how the body of the mafioso was identified.

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