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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?
(a) Both were hired by the family.
(b) Neither had previously done an autopsy this complex.
(c) Neither were in the military, and thus, did not have clearance.
(d) Both were trying to cover up the truth.

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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 not hired anyone.
(c) That he had hired them, but without pay.
(d) That he did not have the authority to hire anyone without Ferrer's approval.

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

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

10. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?
(a) The tests are difficult to obtain.
(b) The poisons are small in dose.
(c) The poisons leave the body before autopsy.
(d) The tests are too expensive to run routinely.

11. What happened to the property of a suicide victim during this time?
(a) It was given to the natives.
(b) It was given to the poor.
(c) It was given to the family.
(d) It was given to the Crown.

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

13. What two disciplines does Baden claim are combined in the medical examiner's position?
(a) Science and law.
(b) Politics and law.
(c) Politics and finance.
(d) Science and politics.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?

4. What does Baden find caused the death of the woman at the fund raising dinner?

5. In what year is the office of the Coroner first described?

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