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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. Why does Baden offer to do a minimum autopsy?

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

3. Where did David Hendricks take his children to eat the night they were murdered?

4. Why was Jaroslawicz's body preserved so well?

5. Why was Baden called in to investigate at Attica?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Hess were killed by the other inmates.

3. Describe the symptoms of a heroin overdose, and how it kills.

4. 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.

5. Why did Jerald Sklar confess to police his knowledge and his crimes, and what was the result?

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 3, Baden discusses the concept that the death of a person is indicative of the life that person led. After reading the book, and seeing Baden's examples, do you think Baden is correct? Why or why not? Do you think the lives of certain individuals lead to their demise? Why? Does this mean we can, to some extent, control our own fate? Why or why not? Does this necessarily mean some deserve their death? Why or why not? Be sure to use examples given by Baden in the book, as either support for your position or as reasons to disprove his theory. Incorporate your own examples, as well, to support your view.

Essay Topic 2

The novel discusses additional methods to deteremine time of death, those of the potassium eye test and the use of the digestive system.

Part 1) List each method, and discuss, in detail, how that method helps determine the time of death.

Part 2) Compare and contrast the methods. How are they the same? How are they different?

Part 3) Compare these methods with rigor mortis, livor mortis, and algor mortis. Why are these methods sometimes needed? What benefit do these methods have that the others do not? Be sure to explain your answer using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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