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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. Who created Four Stages of Cruelty?
(a) George Harlington.
(b) William Hogarth.
(c) Janet Robinson.
(d) Samuell Yeoungman.

2. What does Baden believe is the end goal of the DA?
(a) To find justice for the family.
(b) To pursue the truth at all consequences.
(c) To get a conviction, regardless of truth.
(d) To err on the side of caution for the police.

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

4. How did Furue claim he matched the bones to the missing person list?
(a) By examining the bones to determine ethnicity.
(b) By finding scarring to match old Xrays.
(c) By examining the bones to determine height, weight, and age.
(d) By locating implants.

5. What causes the skin and blood of a victim to turn cherry-pink?
(a) Carbon monoxide poisoning.
(b) Cyanide poisoning.
(c) Arsenic poisoning.
(d) Ricin poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baden prove is the material around Dr. Martin Luther King's wound?

2. How often could autopsies be performed in Massachusetts?

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?

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

5. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ways mentioned in Chapter Six to identify a body?

2. Explain Baden's experience of the convergence of hospital medicine and the morgue, and why the event had an impact on him.

3. Describe the People vs. Levine case. What was the case, and why did Baden fail to do as he was asked by the DA?

4. Explain how Baden discovered the age, time of death, and identity of Katherine Howard.

5. Describe how Baden explains why the father of the female drug addict in Chapter Two has little emotion.

6. Discuss why Baden believes how someone dies is a reflection of how they live.

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

8. Explain what Baden notes occurs by the French Revolution as a way to bring bodies to medical schools for science.

9. Explain how ricin came into fame in 1978.

10. Describe briefly the position of coroner during the reign of King Richard I.

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