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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 did Baden find in the pilot of Flight 66?
(a) Prostate cancer.
(b) A damaged windpipe.
(c) Hardened arteries.
(d) Lung cancer.

2. Why does Baden finally choose to follow forensic medicine?
(a) He believes the field helps the masses.
(b) He enjoys the money.
(c) He enjoys being out of the limelight.
(d) He believes the field helps individuals.

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

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

5. What are symptoms of ricin poisoning?
(a) Heart palpitations, weakness, and numbing.
(b) Sweating, sore joints, and headache.
(c) Abdominal pain, cramps, and dehydration.
(d) Sore throat, cough, and sneezing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the end result of Baden's case?

2. Perez and Narcisco were found guilty of what?

3. What does Baden note in Chapter Two always fascinated him?

4. What military rule hindered the MIA team until 1985?

5. What does Baden note about the FBI photographer at the scene of the autopsy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Baden believes coroners are often in trouble as a result of their positions.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Discuss the symptoms of strychnine.

8. Briefly explain the case of Ann Hart.

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

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

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