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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 group was set up in 1977 to help explain the Kennedy assassination?
(a) The Board of Presidential Death.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The Select Committee on Assassinations.
(d) The Federal Investigative Bureau.

2. 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) Both were hired by the family.
(c) Neither had previously done an autopsy this complex.
(d) Neither were in the military, and thus, did not have clearance.

3. What are signs of strangulation?
(a) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the feet.
(b) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the nose.
(c) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the eye.
(d) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the lungs.

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

5. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?
(a) Abdominal pain, cramps, and dehydration.
(b) Heart palpitations, weakness, and numbing.
(c) Sweating, sore joints, and headache.
(d) Sore throat, cough, and sneezing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?

2. What does Baden believe the group proved, beyond a doubt?

3. What is rigor mortis?

4. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?

5. What does the group find has happened to Kennedy's brain?

(see the answer key)

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