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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is algor mortis?
(a) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.
(b) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.
(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. What did William Hare and William Burke do to obtain bodies to sell?
(a) Murder people.
(b) Steal bodies from hospitals.
(c) Steal bodies from mortuaries.
(d) Find bodies during war.

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

4. Why did Baden delay the autopsy report in the case of Willie Welch?
(a) He was arguing with Dr. Rho about cause of death.
(b) He was unwilling to claim Welch was stabbed.
(c) He was reluctant to help the DA.
(d) He was waiting for toxicology reports.

5. What does a cause of death of 'psychosis with exhaustion' really mean, according to Baden?
(a) That the victim was killed by his own actions.
(b) That the victim was killed while being subdued after acting out.
(c) That the victim was murdered by police for no reason.
(d) That the victim died from exhaustion.

6. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?
(a) They have to be emotional.
(b) They have to be comfortable in the limelight.
(c) They have to prefer academic medicine.
(d) They have to hate publicity.

7. What does Baden note is the desire of the DAs office in terms of the ME?
(a) The DA wants the ME to lie.
(b) The DA wants the ME to be completely truthful.
(c) The DA wants the ME to answer to political pressure.
(d) The DA wants the ME to bend findings to meet his or her needs.

8. What do the police claim Frank Falco used to pretend he had a gun?
(a) A Coke bottle.
(b) A wooden gun.
(c) His finger.
(d) A Pepsi bottle.

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

10. What is Baden's rebuttal to Ferrer's accusation that he had hired four people without authorization?
(a) That he had hired them, but without pay.
(b) That he did not have the authority to hire anyone without Ferrer's approval.
(c) That he had not hired anyone.
(d) That he had, in fact, done so.

11. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?
(a) They have had many children.
(b) They have repeated bouts of gonorrhea.
(c) They have had too many sexual partners.
(d) They have often been raped.

12. What was missing from the body of the bishop on Flight 66?
(a) His left leg.
(b) His right arm.
(c) A ring and a belt.
(d) A ring, cross, and gold wristwatch.

13. How does Baden prove the bullet went into John Connally sideways?
(a) He viewed the video.
(b) He reviewed the Xrays.
(c) He physically examined him in 1978.
(d) He reviewed the medical notes of the attending physician.

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

15. 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, family reports stolen jewelry.
(c) Often, things are stolen from dead bodies.
(d) Often, police overlook such things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Humes do with his original notes from the autopsy?

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

3. What does Baden believe is a reflection of the way people live?

4. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?

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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