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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 drug does Baden note is invisible on the autopsy table?
(a) Strychnine.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) Tranquilizers.
(d) Arsenic.

2. What is a coup injury?
(a) When someone has a bruised back of the head, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain at the back.
(b) When someone has a bruised scalp, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain, all directly beneath one another.
(c) When someone has a bruised back of the head, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain at the front.
(d) When someone has a bruised scalp, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain, all in different areas.

3. What disease does Humes purposefully leave out of the notes of the autopsy?
(a) Polio.
(b) Prostate cancer.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Addison's disease.

4. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?
(a) The poisons leave the body before autopsy.
(b) The tests are too expensive to run routinely.
(c) The poisons are small in dose.
(d) The tests are difficult to obtain.

5. What does a cause of death of 'psychosis with exhaustion' really mean, according to Baden?
(a) That the victim was killed by his own actions.
(b) That the victim was killed while being subdued after acting out.
(c) That the victim was murdered by police for no reason.
(d) That the victim died from exhaustion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?

2. In what year is the office of the Coroner first described?

3. What case does Baden believe was a triumph for forensic medicine in 1910?

4. Who were Baden's Nobel prize winning mentors?

5. Who was the first medical examiner of New York City?

(see the answer key)

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