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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. How are most people identified in a mass disaster?
(a) Family identification.
(b) Identification tags.
(c) Fingerprints and dental records.
(d) Personal property.

2. What is the rule for jurisdiction when it comes to a dismembered body?
(a) Whoever has the hands has the case.
(b) Whoever has the heart has the case.
(c) Whoever has the legs has the case.
(d) Whoever has the brain has the case.

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 the masses.
(d) He believes the field helps individuals.

4. What does the author note about the competency of natural death autopsies?
(a) They are always done competently.
(b) They are usually done competently.
(c) They are never done competently.
(d) They are always done incompetently.

5. What does Baden learn after noting $40 on the body of a dead man in an apartment?
(a) Often, police overlook such things.
(b) Often, things are stolen from dead bodies.
(c) Often, the victim has no valuables.
(d) Often, family reports stolen jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ann Hart sue the government?

2. What is rigor mortis?

3. The baby Baden is called to investigate immediately following the death of the lady at the benefit died from what?

4. What are characteristics of an alcoholic's liver?

5. What do the police claim Frank Falco used to pretend he had a gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the event in Oklahoma that caused the state to create an office of medical examiner.

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

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