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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 does Baden claim happens at the site of an accident?
(a) Body stealing.
(b) Looting.
(c) Abuse of the deceased.
(d) Necrophilia.

2. What case caused Oklahoma to establish a medical examiner position?
(a) The Crippen case.
(b) The Tammany Hall case.
(c) The Charles Norris case.
(d) The George Cole case.

3. What drug does Baden note is invisible on the autopsy table?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Strychnine.
(c) Cyanide.
(d) Tranquilizers.

4. How did Furue claim he matched the bones to the missing person list?
(a) By finding scarring to match old Xrays.
(b) By examining the bones to determine ethnicity.
(c) By examining the bones to determine height, weight, and age.
(d) By locating implants.

5. Where did Baden moonlight during his residency?
(a) In the dentist's office.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) In the medical examiner's office.
(d) In the police department.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a coup injury?

2. What does Baden believe is the end goal of the DA?

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

4. What is livor mortis?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ways mentioned in Chapter Six to identify a body?

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

3. Summarize Baden's beliefs about what the DA expects an ME to do during autopsy, when issuing a cause of death or other findings.

4. Describe the People vs. Levine case. What was the case, and why did Baden fail to do as he was asked by the DA?

5. Describe why Baden notes the conspiracy theorists' use of the head movement of Kennedy after his shooting leads to unreliable conclusions.

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

7. Many cases are mentioned in Chapter Four that others point to as proof that Baden made poor judgments while acting as ME. What is his defense, in general, for the accusations?

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

9. Describe why there was controversy surrounding the death of Elvis.

10. Discuss why Baden believes how someone dies is a reflection of how they live.

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