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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 fact about the 'magic' bullet does Baden point out that explains its ability to travel through more than one person?

2. What happened to the property of a suicide victim during this time?

3. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?

4. What is livor mortis?

5. Who created Four Stages of Cruelty?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the symptoms of strangulation, as seen during autopsy.

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

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

5. Explain how the body of the mafioso was identified.

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

7. What does Baden note in Chapter One is the price of fame when a celebrity dies, and why?

8. 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.

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

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

Baden discusses the use of forensic medicine to help humanity. After reading the book, how do you think forensic medicine can help humanity beyond locating a cause of death? Do you think this role is important? Why? What does the role of an ME have on criminal trials and other investigations? Is this important? When combined with the knowledge that public opinion can overpower science, is the role of a medical examiner more or less important? Why? Be sure to use concepts from the book to explain your answers.

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

Explain the near conviction of Leonard Barco, the man originally believed to have killed Gail Morris. Why was he suspected? What was the role of Dr. Braga in the original cause of death? Why did he issue the cause of death as he did? What led Baden to believe this was incorrect? What did Baden find? Why did this help convince the judge Barco did not commit the crime?

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