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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baden note about the FBI photographer at the scene of the autopsy?

2. If the primary method of identification is not available, what is the second type used?

3. What is Baden's rebuttal to Morgenthau's accusation that he had misplaced evidence?

4. How often could autopsies be performed in Massachusetts?

5. What was the verdict in the Andre case?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the circumstances surrounding the guilty verdict of Harvey Crippen.

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

3. Explain how ricin came into fame in 1978.

4. Describe the People vs. Levine case. What was the case, and why did Baden fail to do as he was asked by the DA?

5. Describe why Baden notes the conspiracy theorists' use of the head movement of Kennedy after his shooting leads to unreliable conclusions.

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

7. In the end of Chapter One, the report given to the FBI suggests two shooters. Explain the event that prompted the committee to suggest this.

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

9. Describe why there was controversy surrounding the death of Elvis.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 4, Baden discusses the history of the office of the medical examiner. In detail, discuss this history. How did the position begin in the reign of King Richard I? What was the position like by the eighteenth century? What event began to change the view of this position, according to Scotland Yard? What began to happen by the French Revolution? How was the position seen in the colonies? What was the view of the ME by the early nineteenth century? What is the current view? Be sure to list details from the book in your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the forensics used in the case of the prison riot at Attica to prove the guards accidentally shot the hostages. What techniques did Baden use to look at the bodies? What did he find? Why did people dislike his findings? How could he prove the findings? What mistakes did others, such as the funeral director, make that hindered the investigation? Did this serve to increase the tension? Why? Do you think the end result at Attica was beneficial? Why? What group did the riots help create? What does that group do? How did that help the prisoners in the long run?

Essay Topic 3

The case of Carl Cappolono is listed as being an almost perfect crime. However, this case had several holes in it that eventually led to Carl's demise. Based on the book, what kinds of mistakes do killers make that eventually come back to haunt them? What do killers assume about poison, and why is this assumption incorrect? How can an ME detect poisons long after they have been administered, according to the tests done in the book? What does this say about the idea that poison killings are killings without a trace?

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