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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?
(a) It is the amount that kills.
(b) It is the combination that kills.
(c) It is the type of drug that kills.
(d) It is the blending of drugs that kills.

2. Perez and Narcisco were found guilty of what?
(a) Poisoning thirty-five people.
(b) Poisoning six people.
(c) Poisoning one hundred people.
(d) Poisoning ten people.

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?
(a) Both were trying to cover up the truth.
(b) Neither were in the military, and thus, did not have clearance.
(c) Both were hired by the family.
(d) Neither had previously done an autopsy this complex.

4. Who were Baden's Nobel prize winning mentors?
(a) Dickinson Richards and Nick Cave.
(b) Andre Richards and Dickinson Cournand.
(c) Andre Cournand and Nick Cave.
(d) Dickinson Richards and Andre Cournand.

5. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are signs of strangulation?

2. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?

3. What is rigor mortis?

4. What did Humes originally claim had happened to the bullet that went into Kennedy's back?

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

(see the answer key)

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