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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 is livor mortis?
(a) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.
(b) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.
(c) A method to determine time of death that uses body color.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body temperature.

2. Which autopsies are done incompetently much of the time?
(a) Natural death autopsies.
(b) Car accident autopsies.
(c) Suicide autopsies.
(d) Unnatural death autopsies.

3. What does Baden learn after noting $40 on the body of a dead man in an apartment?
(a) Often, the victim has no valuables.
(b) Often, things are stolen from dead bodies.
(c) Often, police overlook such things.
(d) Often, family reports stolen jewelry.

4. What did Humes originally claim had happened to the bullet that went into Kennedy's back?
(a) It exited through the arm.
(b) It exited through the stomach.
(c) It was lodged in the body.
(d) It fell back out the entrance wound.

5. What is Baden's first homicide case?
(a) A shoot out in a hotel.
(b) A woman who poisons her husband.
(c) A hit and run.
(d) A man who kills his wife's lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Humes place the gunshot wound to the head erroneously?

2. What is algor mortis?

3. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?

4. Where did Baden moonlight during his residency?

5. What causes the skin and blood of a victim to turn cherry-pink?

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