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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 group was set up in 1977 to help explain the Kennedy assassination?
(a) The Federal Investigative Bureau.
(b) The Board of Presidential Death.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The Select Committee on Assassinations.

2. Why does Baden say MEs fear SIDS organizations when they investigate a child's death?
(a) SIDS organizations try to convince parents not to allow autopsy.
(b) SIDS organizations threaten to sue the ME.
(c) SIDS organizations discourage investigations, since they can cause mental anguish to grieving parents.
(d) SIDS organizations try to have MEs fired.

3. Why does Baden finally choose to follow forensic medicine?
(a) He enjoys the money.
(b) He enjoys being out of the limelight.
(c) He believes the field helps the masses.
(d) He believes the field helps individuals.

4. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?
(a) They have to be comfortable in the limelight.
(b) They have to be emotional.
(c) They have to hate publicity.
(d) They have to prefer academic medicine.

5. What did Humes originally claim had happened to the bullet that went into Kennedy's back?
(a) It exited through the arm.
(b) It was lodged in the body.
(c) It exited through the stomach.
(d) It fell back out the entrance wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fried's three daughters not believe?

2. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?

3. What does Baden prove is the material around Dr. Martin Luther King's wound?

4. Why does Baden offer to do a minimum autopsy?

5. If the primary method of identification is not available, what is the second type used?

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