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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Baden note in Chapter Two always fascinated him?
(a) Politics.
(b) Death.
(c) Anatomy.
(d) Suicide.

3. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?
(a) He is captured at home.
(b) He is captured at work.
(c) He surrenders.
(d) He is killed.

4. During Chapter Two, what do the doctors at the table of the woman who died believe was her cause of deathf?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Drug abuse.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Choking.

5. Who were Baden's Nobel prize winning mentors?
(a) Dickinson Richards and Andre Cournand.
(b) Andre Richards and Dickinson Cournand.
(c) Andre Cournand and Nick Cave.
(d) Dickinson Richards and Nick Cave.

6. What was the outside ME's issued cause of death in the Stewart case?
(a) Death by injury to the spine.
(b) Death by drug overdose.
(c) Death by choke hold.
(d) Death by alcohol overdose.

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

8. The baby Baden is called to investigate immediately following the death of the lady at the benefit died from what?
(a) Neglect.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

10. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?
(a) The status stayed the same.
(b) The status was lost.
(c) There was no status.
(d) The status increased.

11. What does Baden prove is the material around Dr. Martin Luther King's wound?
(a) Powder grains.
(b) Lead.
(c) Soot.
(d) Dirt.

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

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

14. What did Dan Reidy ask Wilbur Howard to do before he died?
(a) Confess to police.
(b) Bury his wife.
(c) Ask for forgiveness.
(d) Put a confession in a lock box.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Baden's patient at the end of Chapter Two suffers from what?

2. What did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?

3. What does Baden believe is the end goal of the DA?

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

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

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