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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 did the ME know Masgay had been frozen?
(a) There was frostbite on the toes.
(b) He found ice crystals in the tissue.
(c) His eyeballs had burst.
(d) His nose was still frozen.

2. What is succinylcholine typically used for?
(a) To relax tension.
(b) To ease headaches.
(c) To ease pain.
(d) To relax skeletal muscles.

3. Which organ is particularly important for detecting poison?
(a) The spleen.
(b) The tongue.
(c) The appendix.
(d) The eye.

4. Why was Sunny von Bulow hospitalized the second time?
(a) Sunny von Bulow overdosed on alcohol.
(b) Sunny von Bulow overdosed on aspirin.
(c) Sunny von Bulow overdosed on cocaine.
(d) Sunny von Bulow overdosed on heroin.

5. What misled the doctors the day of Sunny's third hospitalization?
(a) Her levels of alcohol.
(b) Her low blood sugar.
(c) Her levels of barbiturates.
(d) Her levels of acid.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Michael Privitiera killed?

2. What mistake does Baden blame prison authorities for making?

3. How does heroin kill?

4. Why did Nigerians misdiagnose the reddish color of the brain in the body of Whitney Young, as a brain hemorrhage?

5. Who watched the autopsy of Jaroslawicz?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Carl Cappolino killed William E. Farber.

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

3. 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.

4. Explain how Baden knew the hostages were killed by the guards.

5. 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.

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

7. Explain how Baden used the digestive system to determine time of death in the Hendricks case.

8. Explain what actually happened to Daphne Mellon.

9. Explain why, from the beginning, Baden believed the police had the wrong time of death for Gail Morris.

10. Describe why a body in the desert mummifies, and why a body in the Arctic stays bacteria free.

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