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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Baden fail to change the cause of death on the Soman case?
(a) He was never asked.
(b) He didn't believe the change was truthful.
(c) He didn't have time.
(d) He simply misplaced the file.

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

3. What military rule hindered the MIA team until 1985?
(a) Dental records were carried on board with their owners.
(b) Military planes did not keep record of the passengers.
(c) Xrays were not kept.
(d) Dental records were not kept.

4. During Chapter Two, what do the doctors at the table of the woman who died believe was her cause of deathf?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Drug abuse.
(c) Choking.
(d) A heart attack.

5. What does Baden note is the desire of the DAs office in terms of the ME?
(a) The DA wants the ME to bend findings to meet his or her needs.
(b) The DA wants the ME to lie.
(c) The DA wants the ME to be completely truthful.
(d) The DA wants the ME to answer to political pressure.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did Sir Percival Pott link with scrotum cancer, as a result of his work in autopsy?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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