View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The baby Baden is called to investigate immediately following the death of the lady at the benefit died from what?
(a) Neglect.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Abuse.

2. What did William Hare and William Burke do to obtain bodies to sell?
(a) Murder people.
(b) Steal bodies from mortuaries.
(c) Steal bodies from hospitals.
(d) Find bodies during war.

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

4. Who was the first victim on which autopsy was performed in a murder investigation?
(a) George Harlington.
(b) Francis Carpenter.
(c) Samuell Yeoungman.
(d) Janet Robinson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?

3. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?

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

5. What does a cause of death of 'psychosis with exhaustion' really mean, according to Baden?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain how ricin came into fame in 1978.

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

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

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

7. Many cases are mentioned in Chapter Four that others point to as proof that Baden made poor judgments while acting as ME. What is his defense, in general, for the accusations?

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

9. 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.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 973 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample