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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 piece of evidence was crucial to the case in 1910?
(a) The scar on the pelvis.
(b) The scar on the torso.
(c) The scar on the scalp.
(d) The scar on the arm.

2. What did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?
(a) Cancer or drugs.
(b) Heart disease or drugs.
(c) Drugs or gonorrhea.
(d) Cancer or heart disease,

3. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?
(a) It is the combination that kills.
(b) It is the amount that kills.
(c) It is the type of drug that kills.
(d) It is the blending of drugs that kills.

4. How long did it take Baden's wrongful dismissal suit to go to trial?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

5. What do the police claim Frank Falco used to pretend he had a gun?
(a) A wooden gun.
(b) A Coke bottle.
(c) His finger.
(d) A Pepsi bottle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Furue claim he matched the bones to the missing person list?

2. How are the majority of bodies identified?

3. What happens to Baden's patient following his release from the hospital at the end of Chapter Two?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain how the body of the mafioso was identified.

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

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

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

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