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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baden blame for the increase in mercury scare dsuring his time as ME?
(a) He blames infected swordfish.
(b) He blames improper testing.
(c) He blames environmental factors.
(d) He blames more accurate testing.

2. What did Baden find in the pilot of Flight 66?
(a) Hardened arteries.
(b) Prostate cancer.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) A damaged windpipe.

3. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?
(a) It is the combination that kills.
(b) It is the amount that kills.
(c) It is the type of drug that kills.
(d) It is the blending of drugs that kills.

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

5. Why did Ann Hart sue the government?
(a) Misidentifying her husband's remains.
(b) Claiming her husband went AWOL.
(c) Misidentifying her remains.
(d) Sexual harassment.

6. What was the outside ME's issued cause of death in the Stewart case?
(a) Death by injury to the spine.
(b) Death by drug overdose.
(c) Death by alcohol overdose.
(d) Death by choke hold.

7. How did Furue claim he matched the bones to the missing person list?
(a) By finding scarring to match old Xrays.
(b) By examining the bones to determine height, weight, and age.
(c) By locating implants.
(d) By examining the bones to determine ethnicity.

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

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

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

11. Perez and Narcisco were found guilty of what?
(a) Poisoning thirty-five people.
(b) Poisoning six people.
(c) Poisoning one hundred people.
(d) Poisoning ten people.

12. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?
(a) Measles.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Chicken pox.

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

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

15. What is rigor 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 color.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are most people identified in a mass disaster?

2. Why does Baden believe Levine was convicted at all costs?

3. What does a cause of death of 'psychosis with exhaustion' really mean, according to Baden?

4. What piece of evidence was crucial to the case in 1910?

5. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?

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