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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the fallopian tubes of prostitutes show scarring during autopsy?
(a) They have often been raped.
(b) They have had too many sexual partners.
(c) They have had many children.
(d) They have repeated bouts of gonorrhea.

2. What is rigor mortis?
(a) A method to determine time of death that uses body decomposition.
(b) A method to determine time of death that uses body color.
(c) A method to determine time of death that uses body stiffness.
(d) A method to determine time of death that uses body temperature.

3. What happens to Baden's patient following his release from the hospital at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) He dies of an overdose.
(b) He dies of cancer.
(c) He dies in a car accident.
(d) He dies of infection.

4. How do the police catch Thomas Trantino?
(a) He is captured at home.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He surrenders.
(d) He is captured at work.

5. What trait does Baden note forensic pathologists have to have?
(a) They have to prefer academic medicine.
(b) They have to be emotional.
(c) They have to be comfortable in the limelight.
(d) They have to hate publicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author note about the competency of natural death autopsies?

2. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?

3. What does Baden prove is the material around Dr. Martin Luther King's wound?

4. What is livor mortis?

5. What are signs of strangulation?

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