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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Posner think the bullet mark on the curb was caused by?
(a) It was an old mark.
(b) A police officer shooting back at the crowd.
(c) A car crash the day earlier.
(d) The missed first bullet.

2. Who was the first witness heard by the fact finding commission?
(a) The Secret Service agents.
(b) Marina Oswald.
(c) Mrs. Kennedy.
(d) The CIA chief.

3. What kind of analysis was used to prove that one bullet could have caused both Kennedy's and Connally's wounds?
(a) Sound wave analysis.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Bullet factor analysis.
(d) Failure analysis.

4. What hospital was President Kennedy rushed to after the shooting according to Chapter 13?
(a) Parkland Hospital.
(b) Park Hospital.
(c) Houston General.
(d) Dallas Central.

5. What does Posner say the conspiracy theory and controversy led to?
(a) The downfall of reason.
(b) Numerous books.
(c) A lot of bad websites.
(d) The 1970 House reinvestigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many eye witnesses testify seeing in the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building?

2. What did Michael Paine bring Oswald to see to try to show him that there were other ways of political activism than his own?

3. How many pages was the report released by the fact finding commission?

4. How many men did some witnesses believe were present in the sniper's nest?

5. Who did Oswald spend the weekend of October 18, 1963 with?

(see the answer key)

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