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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Humes place the gunshot wound to the head erroneously?
(a) Four inches too high.
(b) Four inches to the right of the actual wound.
(c) Four inches too low.
(d) Four inches to the left of the actual wound.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. What does Baden believe the group proved, beyond a doubt?
(a) Kennedy was shot by a single shooter.
(b) Kennedy was not assassinated.
(c) There were two shooters during the Kennedy assassination.
(d) Kennedy was killed by the government.

8. 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 told someone she was being followed.
(d) She didn't leave a note.

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

10. 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 not jacketed.
(c) The bullet was made with a full metal jacket.
(d) The bullet was specially made.

11. What did William Hare and William Burke do to obtain bodies to sell?
(a) Murder people.
(b) Steal bodies from hospitals.
(c) Steal bodies from mortuaries.
(d) Find bodies during war.

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

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

14. What is a coup injury?
(a) When someone has a bruised back of the head, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain at the front.
(b) When someone has a bruised scalp, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain, all directly beneath one another.
(c) When someone has a bruised back of the head, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain at the back.
(d) When someone has a bruised scalp, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain, all in different areas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of evidence was crucial to the case in 1910?

2. What does the author note about the competency of natural death autopsies?

3. Which autopsies are done incompetently much of the time?

4. How did Furue claim he matched the bones to the missing person list?

5. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?

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