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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baden point out is a misconception about drugs and alcohol?
(a) It is the type of drug that kills.
(b) It is the amount that kills.
(c) It is the combination that kills.
(d) It is the blending of drugs that kills.

2. Why does Baden challenge the autopsy finding of the Lindberg baby?
(a) A fractured skull is not a true cause of death.
(b) The knife wounds did not match the murder weapon.
(c) There was blood flowing the wrong direction on the body.
(d) The gunshot wound was too large to be from a .22.

3. What does Baden realize about Humes and Finck, the men who performed the original autopsy?
(a) Neither had previously done an autopsy this complex.
(b) Neither were in the military, and thus, did not have clearance.
(c) Both were trying to cover up the truth.
(d) Both were hired by the family.

4. Why does Baden believe Levine was convicted at all costs?
(a) The DA wanted a conviction to spare the family.
(b) The DA wanted a conviction to serve justice.
(c) The ME wanted a raise.
(d) Morgenthau's office had previously lost evidence, which allowed him to be set free.

5. Why are many exotic poisons difficult to detect during autopsy?
(a) The tests are difficult to obtain.
(b) The poisons are small in dose.
(c) The tests are too expensive to run routinely.
(d) The poisons leave the body before autopsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is the office of the Coroner first described?

2. What is a coup injury?

3. Who was the first medical examiner of New York City?

4. During Chapter Two, what do the doctors at the table of the woman who died believe was her cause of deathf?

5. What did medical examiners have to decide between as a cause of death for Elvis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. List the three tests used to determine how long someone has been dead, and mention what they are.

5. Discuss the symptoms of strychnine.

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

7. Describe how Baden explains why the father of the female drug addict in Chapter Two has little emotion.

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

9. Explain how ricin came into fame in 1978.

10. Briefly explain the case of Ann Hart.

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