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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was missing from the body of the bishop on Flight 66?
(a) A ring, cross, and gold wristwatch.
(b) His left leg.
(c) His right arm.
(d) A ring and a belt.

2. What does Baden learn after noting $40 on the body of a dead man in an apartment?
(a) Often, the victim has no valuables.
(b) Often, family reports stolen jewelry.
(c) Often, police overlook such things.
(d) Often, things are stolen from dead bodies.

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

4. What are signs of strangulation?
(a) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the nose.
(b) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the feet.
(c) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the lungs.
(d) A fractured windpipe and hemorrhaging in the eye.

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

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

7. 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 in different areas.
(c) When someone has a bruised scalp, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain, all directly beneath one another.
(d) When someone has a bruised back of the head, a fractured skull, and a bruised brain at the back.

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

9. What was the end result of Baden's case?
(a) He was given a settlement.
(b) He was not reinstated.
(c) He was moved into a different position.
(d) He was reinstated.

10. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?
(a) It looks like a thick calf's liver.
(b) It is white with red spots.
(c) It is yellow with a fatty consistency.
(d) It is much smaller than normal.

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

12. 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.

13. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?
(a) The knife wounds did not match the murder weapon.
(b) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.
(c) There was blood flowing the wrong direction on the body.
(d) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.

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

15. What happened in St. Louis in 1973 that hindered MIA investigations?
(a) There was a computer crash that lost military records.
(b) There was a flood that damaged military records.
(c) There was a tornado that damaged military records.
(d) There was a fire that burned military records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sir Percival Pott link with scrotum cancer, as a result of his work in autopsy?

2. What do the police claim Frank Falco used to pretend he had a gun?

3. What was the verdict in the Andre case?

4. What causes the skin and blood of a victim to turn cherry-pink?

5. What did Humes do with his original notes from the autopsy?

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