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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?
(a) He is captured at home.
(b) He is captured at work.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He surrenders.

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

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

4. What did Humes do with his original notes from the autopsy?
(a) He published them.
(b) He lost them.
(c) He burned them.
(d) He edited them.

5. What does the author note about the competency of natural death autopsies?
(a) They are never done competently.
(b) They are usually done competently.
(c) They are always done incompetently.
(d) They are always done competently.

6. What is Baden's rebuttal to Morgenthau's accusation that he had misplaced evidence?
(a) He says his office did lose evidence, but that it was stolen by an unknown person.
(b) He says he did not lose evidence.
(c) He admits he did lose evidence.
(d) He says his office did lose evidence, but that Morgenthau stole it.

7. Who was the first medical examiner of New York City?
(a) Henry Wilcox.
(b) Tammany Hall.
(c) Dr. Charles Norris.
(d) John Mitchel.

8. What fact does Baden point to that makes him believe Miriam Weinfeld was not raped?
(a) Her hymen was intact.
(b) There was no blood in her vagina.
(c) There was acid phosphatase in the vagina.
(d) She was an older victim.

9. What drug does Baden note is invisible on the autopsy table?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Strychnine.
(c) Tranquilizers.
(d) Cyanide.

10. What does Baden claim happens at the site of an accident?
(a) Body stealing.
(b) Looting.
(c) Necrophilia.
(d) Abuse of the deceased.

11. How are most people identified in a mass disaster?
(a) Fingerprints and dental records.
(b) Identification tags.
(c) Family identification.
(d) Personal property.

12. What does Baden believe the group proved, beyond a doubt?
(a) Kennedy was not assassinated.
(b) Kennedy was shot by a single shooter.
(c) Kennedy was killed by the government.
(d) There were two shooters during the Kennedy assassination.

13. What case does Baden believe was a triumph for forensic medicine in 1910?
(a) The Triffin murder case.
(b) The Crippen murder case.
(c) The William Hogarth case.
(d) The Jack the Ripper case.

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

15. Why did Baden not do an autopsy on Nelson Rockefeller?
(a) He didn't want to cause controversy.
(b) He was given a death certificate by his own physician.
(c) He didn't want to get involved.
(d) He didn't want to report a suicide.

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 realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?

3. What happened to the property of a suicide victim during this time?

4. What is a coup injury?

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

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