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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. In Chapter Two, what actually caused the death of the man being autopsied in fear of small pox?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Measles.

2. Why does Baden believe Levine was convicted at all costs?
(a) The ME wanted a raise.
(b) The DA wanted a conviction to spare the family.
(c) The DA wanted a conviction to serve justice.
(d) Morgenthau's office had previously lost evidence, which allowed him to be set free.

3. What were resurrectionists during the time of the French Revolution?
(a) Morticians.
(b) Medical students.
(c) Medical examiners.
(d) Grave robbers.

4. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?
(a) They have often been raped.
(b) They have had many children.
(c) They have had too many sexual partners.
(d) They have repeated bouts of gonorrhea.

5. Why did Baden not do an autopsy on Nelson Rockefeller?
(a) He was given a death certificate by his own physician.
(b) He didn't want to cause controversy.
(c) He didn't want to report a suicide.
(d) He didn't want to get involved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Humes place the gunshot wound to the head erroneously?

2. Baden's patient at the end of Chapter Two suffers from what?

3. Who was the first medical examiner of New York City?

4. What does Baden believe is the true cause of Thomas Noguchi's move to a teaching position?

5. What did Dan Reidy ask Wilbur Howard to do before he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how ricin came into fame in 1978.

2. Summarize Baden's beliefs about what the DA expects an ME to do during autopsy, when issuing a cause of death or other findings.

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

4. Explain why identification of the victims of Flight 66 was hindered.

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss the symptoms of strychnine.

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

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