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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some list as a reason to believe Marilyn Monroe was murdered?
(a) There was blood at the scene.
(b) There were no barbiturates in her stomach.
(c) She didn't leave a note.
(d) She told someone she was being followed.

2. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?
(a) It looks like a thick calf's liver.
(b) It is yellow with a fatty consistency.
(c) It is white with red spots.
(d) It is much smaller than normal.

3. What does Baden note his profession was believed to be?
(a) A place for the elite in the field of medicine.
(b) A dumping ground for those who couldn't finish medical school.
(c) A dumping ground for incompetents.
(d) A place for only the most intelligent.

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

5. What was the verdict in the Andre case?
(a) Andre was found guilty.
(b) Andre was acquitted.
(c) Andre was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
(d) Andre was never taken to trial.

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

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

8. What did Sir Percival Pott link with scrotum cancer, as a result of his work in autopsy?
(a) Being a sewage worker.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Being a chimney sweep.
(d) Smoking.

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

10. Where did Baden moonlight during his residency?
(a) In the dentist's office.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) In the police department.
(d) In the medical examiner's office.

11. What does the group find has happened to Kennedy's brain?
(a) It has been eaten by rodents.
(b) It has rotted away.
(c) It has been donated to science.
(d) It has disappeared from the archives.

12. What does Baden note about the FBI photographer at the scene of the autopsy?
(a) He had never done autopsy photos.
(b) His camera was insufficient for the job.
(c) He was overqualified.
(d) He did not have clearance.

13. What does Baden note about the symmetry of the human body?
(a) It is always bigger on the right.
(b) It is always bigger on the left.
(c) It is asymmetrical.
(d) It is symmetrical.

14. In what year is the office of the Coroner first described?
(a) 1587.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1194.

15. What is rigor mortis?
(a) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.
(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 temperature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?

3. What fact does Baden point to that makes him believe Miriam Weinfeld was not raped?

4. What did Dan Reidy ask Wilbur Howard to do before he died?

5. Why did Baden delay the autopsy report in the case of Willie Welch?

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