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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 event forced Scotland Yard to begin examining the role of the coroner?
(a) The Black Death.
(b) The failure to find Jack the Ripper.
(c) The rise of murders.
(d) The Plague.

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

3. What does Baden believe is the end goal of the DA?
(a) To find justice for the family.
(b) To pursue the truth at all consequences.
(c) To get a conviction, regardless of truth.
(d) To err on the side of caution for the police.

4. Why did the urine in Belushi's bladder help police?
(a) There was not enough to indicate he had slipped into a coma.
(b) The amount showed he had slipped into a coma.
(c) There was none, indicating he had gotten up to urinate.
(d) There was none, indicating he had urinated himself.

5. What is the proof of cyanide poisoning Baden finds in the bodies that is crucial to the case?
(a) Cyanide is found in the tissue.
(b) There is lividity in the bodies.
(c) The smell of bitter almonds is present.
(d) Baden didn't find proof of cyanide poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baden note in Chapter Two always fascinated him?

2. What do some list as a reason to believe Marilyn Monroe was murdered?

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?

4. What does Baden note about the symmetry of the human body?

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

(see the answer key)

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