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

2. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?
(a) The status increased.
(b) The status stayed the same.
(c) The status was lost.
(d) There was no status.

3. What disease does Humes purposefully leave out of the notes of the autopsy?
(a) Addison's disease.
(b) Polio.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Prostate cancer.

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

5. What event forced Scotland Yard to begin examining the role of the coroner?
(a) The Black Death.
(b) The rise of murders.
(c) The failure to find Jack the Ripper.
(d) The Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Baden give to the biologist that allowed him to give a time of death for the 55 year old woman of at least a year and a half?

2. During Chapter Two, what do the doctors at the table of the woman who died believe was her cause of deathf?

3. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?

4. Where did Humes place the gunshot wound to the head erroneously?

5. Baden's patient at the end of Chapter Two suffers from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Humes' excuse about the faulty autopsy, and is this excuse valid?

2. In the end of Chapter One, the report given to the FBI suggests two shooters. Explain the event that prompted the committee to suggest this.

3. What happened to much of the evidence in the Kennedy assassination case, and what does Baden believe occurred?

4. Summarize Baden's beliefs about what the DA expects an ME to do during autopsy, when issuing a cause of death or other findings.

5. Describe the symptoms of strangulation, as seen during autopsy.

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

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

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

9. What does Baden note in Chapter One is the price of fame when a celebrity dies, and why?

10. Explain why Baden chose forensic medicine as his profession.

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