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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. How did the ME know Masgay had been frozen?
2. What did the trooper's weapons fire?
3. What happened to the prisoners who told reporters they disagreed with the riot?
4. Dr. Worthington was willing to testify to what?
5. What leads investigators to ask for Baden's assistance with Dr. Brown's murder?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Hess were killed by the other inmates.
2. How did Baden know the killer in the Buffalo slayings was trained, either as a hunter or medically?
3. 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.
4. Explain why, from the beginning, Baden believed the police had the wrong time of death for Gail Morris.
5. Describe why a body in the desert mummifies, and why a body in the Arctic stays bacteria free.
6. Describe how the development of maggots helped determine time of death in the case of Gail Morris.
7. Why did Kuklinski use cyanide, and how did Baden discover it on his victims?
8. Explain how Baden knew the hostages were killed by the guards.
9. Explain the situation that causes some teenagers and adults to accidentally commit suicide by hanging during sexual experimentation.
10. Explain how Carl Cappolino killed William E. Farber.
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
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 3
Discuss each of the following forms of identification of remains in detail. Be sure to mention how the process is done, and any limitations mentioned in the book in terms of their reliability and effectiveness. Use examples from the book, where possible, to show how the method is used.
• Familial identification
• Dental identification
• Bone identification
• Scar identification
• Fingerprinting
• Personal effects identification
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