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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What fact about the 'magic' bullet does Baden point out that explains its ability to travel through more than one person?
(a) The bullet was large.
(b) The bullet was specially made.
(c) The bullet was made with a full metal jacket.
(d) The bullet was not jacketed.

7. 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.

8. How are the majority of bodies identified?
(a) By bone scans.
(b) By family.
(c) By ID tags.
(d) By dental records.

9. What is rigor 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.

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

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

12. Baden's patient at the end of Chapter Two suffers from what?
(a) An infection of the brain.
(b) An infection of the heart valve.
(c) An infection of the toe.
(d) An infection of the blood.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Baden's patient following his release from the hospital at the end of Chapter Two?

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

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

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