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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. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 1 hours.

2. When was a manuscript written that described putting delinquent juveniles inside a box outside town hall that would be spun at high speed until the youth vomited?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1914.

3. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1998.

4. How old was Eleanor Bratton when she had a red and swollen leg?
(a) 18.
(b) 23.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

5. Where did Drury go to college?
(a) University of Southern Indiana.
(b) Indiana State University.
(c) Purdue University.
(d) University of Evansville.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was one of the earliest forensic examinations performed?

2. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?

3. How much did Caselli weigh before the surgery?

4. Where was the television station where Christine Drury was the overnight anchorwoman?

5. When did Gawande attend medical school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?

2. What does it mean that "there is an art to being a patient"?

3. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

4. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

5. What are the dangers of surgery for a morbidly obese person?

6. What types of situations made Drury blush?

7. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

8. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

9. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

10. Why did Gawande and others suspect abuse when they saw a two-month-old boy whose face had been badly scalded?

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