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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often could autopsies be performed in Massachusetts?
(a) Every four years.
(b) Every year.
(c) Once every ten years.
(d) Every day.

2. What happens to Baden's patient following his release from the hospital at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) He dies of infection.
(b) He dies of cancer.
(c) He dies in a car accident.
(d) He dies of an overdose.

3. What event forced Scotland Yard to begin examining the role of the coroner?
(a) The Plague.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The rise of murders.
(d) The failure to find Jack the Ripper.

4. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?
(a) There was blood flowing the wrong direction on the body.
(b) The knife wounds did not match the murder weapon.
(c) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.
(d) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.

5. How long did it take Baden's wrongful dismissal suit to go to trial?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?

2. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?

3. Why did Ann Hart sue the government?

4. Which autopsies are done incompetently much of the time?

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

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