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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What case caused Oklahoma to establish a medical examiner position?
(a) The Crippen case.
(b) The George Cole case.
(c) The Tammany Hall case.
(d) The Charles Norris case.

2. What was the outside ME's issued cause of death in the Stewart case?
(a) Death by alcohol overdose.
(b) Death by choke hold.
(c) Death by injury to the spine.
(d) Death by drug overdose.

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

4. What fact about the 'magic' bullet does Baden point out that explains its ability to travel through more than one person?
(a) The bullet was not jacketed.
(b) The bullet was specially made.
(c) The bullet was large.
(d) The bullet was made with a full metal jacket.

5. 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) Blood.
(b) Fish samples.
(c) Algae.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?

2. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?

3. What is Baden's rebuttal to Morgenthau's accusation that he had misplaced evidence?

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

5. What did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?

(see the answer key)

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