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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the rule for jurisdiction when it comes to a dismembered body?
(a) Whoever has the hands has the case.
(b) Whoever has the heart has the case.
(c) Whoever has the brain has the case.
(d) Whoever has the legs has the case.

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

3. 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) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.
(d) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.

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

5. How long does the military keep medical records?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Indefinitely.
(d) One year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Baden believe Levine was convicted at all costs?
(a) The DA wanted a conviction to spare the family.
(b) The ME wanted a raise.
(c) Morgenthau's office had previously lost evidence, which allowed him to be set free.
(d) The DA wanted a conviction to serve justice.

13. 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 color.
(c) A method to determine time of death that uses body temperature.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.

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

15. What did Baden recommend to the MIA team?
(a) They should get a microscope.
(b) They should get an anthropologist.
(c) They should get an ME.
(d) They should get an Xray machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Baden's first homicide case?

2. Why did Baden not do an autopsy on Nelson Rockefeller?

3. What does Baden claim happens at the site of an accident?

4. 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?

5. The baby Baden is called to investigate immediately following the death of the lady at the benefit died from what?

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