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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. Why were MEs suspicious of the number of SIDS deaths?
(a) Only one in a million die of SIDS.
(b) SIDS is a genetic disease.
(c) Only three in a thousand die of SIDS.
(d) SIDS is caused by smoking, and the Tinnings did not smoke.

2. What method does Baden use to determine time of death for John Belushi?
(a) Rigor mortis.
(b) Livor mortis.
(c) Rigor mortis, livor mortis, and algor mortis.
(d) Algor mortis.

3. What did the funeral director miss when preparing the body for funeral?
(a) The bruises on his ribs.
(b) The bruises on his neck.
(c) A stab wound in the neck.
(d) A gunshot wound in the back.

4. What does Baden claim was the cause of death for Whitney Young?
(a) A heart attack which contributed to drowning.
(b) An infection that caused fainting, which contributed to drowning.
(c) A blow to the head, which contributed to drowning.
(d) A stroke which contributed to drowning.

5. What did Baden find when Carmella's body was exhumed?
(a) Injection marks.
(b) A bullet.
(c) Signs of drug use.
(d) Stab wounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baden find in his autopsies?

2. Why does Baden say MEs fear SIDS organizations when they investigate a child's death?

3. What was Baden's listed cause of death for Daphne Mellon?

4. How did Baden know Fried's death was not suicide by overdose?

5. What did Robert Travis and Larry Peters set out to do at Dr. Brown's property on the night she died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the circumstances surrounding the finding of Daphne Mellon's vehicle, personal items, and body, and why those findings led to questions.

2. Explain the three themes of Baden's affidavit in the case of Claus von Bulow.

3. Explain what Baden and his team found when they became part of the medical review board that monitors prison deaths, and how those issues were addressed.

4. Why did Kuklinski use cyanide, and how did Baden discover it on his victims?

5. Explain the situation that causes some teenagers and adults to accidentally commit suicide by hanging during sexual experimentation.

6. Describe the circumstances in the case of the S&M nurse and doctor in Chapter Ten that led to the case being taken to a grand jury to process the nurse for homicide.

7. Explain what Baden notices about Sunny's levels of alcohol and barbiturates, and why he calculates them as fatal levels at the time of her coma.

8. Explain why the DA dropped the three additional murder charges against Kuklinski.

9. Explain how and why Jascalevich killed the patients of other doctors.

10. Describe how the development of maggots helped determine time of death in the case of Gail Morris.

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