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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first victim on which autopsy was performed in a murder investigation?
(a) Samuell Yeoungman.
(b) Janet Robinson.
(c) Francis Carpenter.
(d) George Harlington.

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

3. What two disciplines does Baden claim are combined in the medical examiner's position?
(a) Science and law.
(b) Science and politics.
(c) Politics and law.
(d) Politics and finance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were resurrectionists during the time of the French Revolution?

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?

4. What does Baden note is the desire of the DAs office in terms of the ME?

5. 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?

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