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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 did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?
(a) Drugs or gonorrhea.
(b) Heart disease or drugs.
(c) Cancer or heart disease,
(d) Cancer or drugs.

2. What piece of evidence was crucial to the case in 1910?
(a) The scar on the pelvis.
(b) The scar on the arm.
(c) The scar on the torso.
(d) The scar on the scalp.

3. Who were Baden's Nobel prize winning mentors?
(a) Andre Cournand and Nick Cave.
(b) Dickinson Richards and Andre Cournand.
(c) Andre Richards and Dickinson Cournand.
(d) Dickinson Richards and Nick Cave.

4. Which organ is particularly important for detecting poison?
(a) The appendix.
(b) The spleen.
(c) The tongue.
(d) The eye.

5. If the primary method of identification is not available, what is the second type used?
(a) Dental records.
(b) Family identification.
(c) Bone scans.
(d) ID Tags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Humes do with his original notes from the autopsy?

2. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?

3. What pattern does Baden find in the .22 caliber killer, the New York Slasher, and the Buffalo Slasher?

4. Why is exhumation done early in the morning?

5. What is rigor mortis?

(see the answer key)

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