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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does heroin kill?
(a) It depresses the brain enough so it forgets to send a signal to breathe.
(b) It causes a stroke.
(c) It induces heart attack.
(d) It depresses the brain enough so it forgets to send a signal to the heart.

2. How did Jerald Sklar claim Catherine Fried had killed her husband?
(a) By stabbing him.
(b) By sitting on a pillow over his face.
(c) By poisoning him.
(d) By strangling him with a telephone cord.

3. What does Baden blame for the increase in mercury scare dsuring his time as ME?
(a) He blames infected swordfish.
(b) He blames improper testing.
(c) He blames environmental factors.
(d) He blames more accurate testing.

4. What did Fried's three daughters not believe?
(a) That his death was a suicide.
(b) That he fell from a ladder.
(c) That he died of a gunshot wound.
(d) That he drown.

5. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?
(a) Sweating, sore joints, and headache.
(b) Heart palpitations, weakness, and numbing.
(c) Sore throat, cough, and sneezing.
(d) Abdominal pain, cramps, and dehydration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Baden not do an autopsy on Nelson Rockefeller?

2. Perez and Narcisco were found guilty of what?

3. Which autopsies are done incompetently much of the time?

4. What happens to Baden's patient following his release from the hospital at the end of Chapter Two?

5. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?

(see the answer key)

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