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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does Baden use to determine time of death for John Belushi?
(a) Rigor mortis, livor mortis, and algor mortis.
(b) Livor mortis.
(c) Algor mortis.
(d) Rigor mortis.

2. Who watched the autopsy of Jaroslawicz?
(a) A district attorney.
(b) A pediatrician who was also a rabbi.
(c) A local priest.
(d) Another ME.

3. What did Baden find when Carmella's body was exhumed?
(a) Signs of drug use.
(b) Stab wounds.
(c) A bullet.
(d) Injection marks.

4. What is the proof of cyanide poisoning Baden finds in the bodies that is crucial to the case?
(a) Baden didn't find proof of cyanide poisoning.
(b) Cyanide is found in the tissue.
(c) The smell of bitter almonds is present.
(d) There is lividity in the bodies.

5. What happened to Sunny von Bulow the third time she was hospitalized?
(a) She died.
(b) She went into a coma.
(c) She was saved, and went home.
(d) She was diagnosed with cancer.

6. What is succinylcholine typically used for?
(a) To ease pain.
(b) To relax tension.
(c) To ease headaches.
(d) To relax skeletal muscles.

7. How did the masochist doctor die at the end of Chapter Ten?
(a) He died from a heroin overdose.
(b) He died from starvation.
(c) He died from a gunshot wound.
(d) He died by asphyxiation.

8. What does Baden find in his autopsies?
(a) The hostages died from being shot by guards.
(b) The prisoners died from being shot by other prisoners.
(c) The hostages died from being stabbed by guards.
(d) The hostages died from being poisoned by other prisoners.

9. What does Baden claim in the cause of failure for the ME system?
(a) Untrained MEs and political pressure.
(b) A lack of proper equipment.
(c) A lack on interest.
(d) A lack of budget.

10. Where was the body of Daphne Mellon found?
(a) In the living room of a neighbor.
(b) In her car.
(c) In a sugar cane field.
(d) In the swamp.

11. What mistake does Baden blame prison authorities for making?
(a) They stopped the raid to negotiate.
(b) They threatened the prisoners.
(c) They started the raid.
(d) They killed a prisoner.

12. What did Travis and Peters not know about Dr. Brown?
(a) She was a night owl.
(b) She was a martial arts expert.
(c) She was not at home.
(d) She was married.

13. What misled the doctors the day of Sunny's third hospitalization?
(a) Her low blood sugar.
(b) Her levels of barbiturates.
(c) Her levels of acid.
(d) Her levels of alcohol.

14. How does heroin kill?
(a) It depresses the brain enough so it forgets to send a signal to breathe.
(b) It depresses the brain enough so it forgets to send a signal to the heart.
(c) It causes a stroke.
(d) It induces heart attack.

15. What happened to the prisoners who told reporters they disagreed with the riot?
(a) They were beat to death.
(b) They were stabbed to death.
(c) They were shot to death.
(d) They were set free.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Baden know Gail Morris died on Saturday, and not on Friday or Sunday?

2. Why were the corrections officers not supposed to take part in the raid?

3. What did Travis and Peters do to cover up the crime?

4. Dr. Worthington was willing to testify to what?

5. Why was Leonard Barco an obvious suspect for the killing of Gail Morris?

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