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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 were Baden's Nobel prize winning mentors?
(a) Andre Cournand and Nick Cave.
(b) Dickinson Richards and Nick Cave.
(c) Dickinson Richards and Andre Cournand.
(d) Andre Richards and Dickinson Cournand.

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

3. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?
(a) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.
(b) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.
(c) The knife wounds did not match the murder weapon.
(d) There was blood flowing the wrong direction on the body.

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

5. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?
(a) It looks like a thick calf's liver.
(b) It is white with red spots.
(c) It is much smaller than normal.
(d) It is yellow with a fatty consistency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?

2. What happened to the status of a coroner over time?

3. Why did Baden fail to change the cause of death on the Soman case?

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

5. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?

Short Essay Questions

1. List the three tests used to determine how long someone has been dead, and mention what they are.

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

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

4. What is psychosis with exhaustion, according to Baden?

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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