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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease does Humes purposefully leave out of the notes of the autopsy?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Polio.
(c) Addison's disease.
(d) Prostate cancer.

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

3. What did Baden give to the biologist that allowed him to give a time of death for the 55 year old woman of at least a year and a half?
(a) Fish samples.
(b) Blood.
(c) Algae.
(d) Water.

4. What does Baden theorize actually introduced meningitis into Jennifer?
(a) An attempted abortion.
(b) A coat hanger as Tinning tried to hasten birth.
(c) A rape.
(d) A drug needle as Tinning shot it into her stomach.

5. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?
(a) The tests are difficult to obtain.
(b) The poisons are small in dose.
(c) The poisons leave the body before autopsy.
(d) The tests are too expensive to run routinely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is livor mortis?

2. Why did Baden delay the autopsy report in the case of Willie Welch?

3. Where did David Hendricks take his children to eat the night they were murdered?

4. What is Baden's criticism against the doctors who saw Tinning's nine dead children?

5. What did William Hare and William Burke do to obtain bodies to sell?

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