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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 was Baden's listed cause of death for Daphne Mellon?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Blunt force trauma.
(c) Strangulation.
(d) Gunshot wound.

2. What leads investigators to ask for Baden's assistance with Dr. Brown's murder?
(a) They find soot in the airway, but no carbon monoxide.
(b) They find no body, but traces of burnt flesh.
(c) They find no traces of drugs in Dr. Brown's system.
(d) They find carbon monoxide, but no soot in the airway.

3. What caused Belushi's brain to swell?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Brain aneurysm.

4. How did Baden know Fried's death was not suicide by overdose?
(a) He had low levels of cocaine in his system.
(b) He had low levels of heroin in his system.
(c) He had low levels of barbiturates in his system.
(d) He did not have any drugs in his system.

5. What did Fried's three daughters not believe?
(a) That he drown.
(b) That he fell from a ladder.
(c) That his death was a suicide.
(d) That he died of a gunshot wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the prisoners do to William Quinn?

2. Why is exhumation done early in the morning?

3. What was the first indicator that the Tinning children did not die from bad genes?

4. Where was the body of Daphne Mellon found?

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

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

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

4. Describe the potassium eye fluid test.

5. Explain why doctors believed Sunny von Bulow was suffering from low blood sugar on her arrival the third time at the hospital, in spite of EMT belief that she was suffering an overdose.

6. 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.

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

8. Explain why the prisoners at Attica were rioting, including those things mentioned that were problems for the corrections board.

9. Explain Ondine's syndrome.

10. 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.

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