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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some list as a reason to believe Marilyn Monroe was murdered?
(a) There was blood at the scene.
(b) She told someone she was being followed.
(c) She didn't leave a note.
(d) There were no barbiturates in her stomach.

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

3. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?
(a) It is the type of drug that kills.
(b) It is the combination that kills.
(c) It is the blending of drugs that kills.
(d) It is the amount that kills.

4. Why does Baden finally choose to follow forensic medicine?
(a) He enjoys being out of the limelight.
(b) He enjoys the money.
(c) He believes the field helps individuals.
(d) He believes the field helps the masses.

5. Why did Baden delay the autopsy report in the case of Willie Welch?
(a) He was arguing with Dr. Rho about cause of death.
(b) He was reluctant to help the DA.
(c) He was unwilling to claim Welch was stabbed.
(d) He was waiting for toxicology reports.

6. What is rigor 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.

7. What does Baden believe is the true cause of Thomas Noguchi's move to a teaching position?
(a) He leaked that alcoholism was the cause of death for Frank Sinatra.
(b) He stole from the office.
(c) He leaked that alcoholism was the cause of death for William Holden.
(d) He did work for other counties.

8. What did Baden find in the pilot of Flight 66?
(a) Hardened arteries.
(b) A damaged windpipe.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Prostate cancer.

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

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

11. How long does the military keep medical records?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Indefinitely.

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

13. Why did Baden fail to change the cause of death on the Soman case?
(a) He didn't have time.
(b) He didn't believe the change was truthful.
(c) He was never asked.
(d) He simply misplaced the file.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Baden blame for the increase in mercury scare dsuring his time as ME?

3. What did William Hare and William Burke do to obtain bodies to sell?

4. What event forced Scotland Yard to begin examining the role of the coroner?

5. What is Baden's rebuttal to Morgenthau's accusation that he had misplaced evidence?

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