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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 was lodged in the body.
(c) It exited through the stomach.
(d) It exited through the arm.

4. What does a cause of death of 'psychosis with exhaustion' really mean, according to Baden?
(a) That the victim was killed by his own actions.
(b) That the victim was murdered by police for no reason.
(c) That the victim was killed while being subdued after acting out.
(d) That the victim died from exhaustion.

5. What military rule hindered the MIA team until 1985?
(a) Military planes did not keep record of the passengers.
(b) Dental records were not kept.
(c) Xrays were not kept.
(d) Dental records were carried on board with their owners.

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

7. Where were the survivors of Flight 66 sitting?
(a) In the cockpit.
(b) In the rear of the plane.
(c) In the front of the plane.
(d) In the middle of the plane.

8. What case caused Oklahoma to establish a medical examiner position?
(a) The Charles Norris case.
(b) The George Cole case.
(c) The Crippen case.
(d) The Tammany Hall case.

9. 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 ethnicity.
(c) By examining the bones to determine height, weight, and age.
(d) By locating implants.

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

11. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?
(a) Abdominal pain, cramps, and dehydration.
(b) Sore throat, cough, and sneezing.
(c) Sweating, sore joints, and headache.
(d) Heart palpitations, weakness, and numbing.

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

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

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

15. How long did it take Baden's wrongful dismissal suit to go to trial?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the end result of Baden's case?

4. Where did Humes place the gunshot wound to the head erroneously?

5. What are signs of strangulation?

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