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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baden believe is a reflection of the way people live?
(a) The people who appear at their funeral.
(b) Their money.
(c) The way people die.
(d) Their obituary.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fact does Baden point to that makes him believe Miriam Weinfeld was not raped?

3. What is rigor mortis?

4. What is Baden's first homicide case?

5. What does Baden note about the FBI photographer at the scene of the autopsy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why Baden notes the conspiracy theorists' use of the head movement of Kennedy after his shooting leads to unreliable conclusions.

2. Explain the circumstances surrounding the guilty verdict of Harvey Crippen.

3. Explain why Baden believes coroners are often in trouble as a result of their positions.

4. Explain how the body of the mafioso was identified.

5. Discuss the symptoms of strychnine.

6. Explain why Baden believes people go into particular medical professions.

7. Describe why Baden believes the dead woman at the fund raiser and the dead baby in the impoverished apartment represent the inequalities of life.

8. Briefly explain the case of Ann Hart.

9. Explain how the body of Theresa Ferrara was identified and why there were different strands of hair on her torso.

10. Describe the blunders that occurred during the Levin and Chambers case.

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