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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 happened to Riverdell Hospital?

2. What is succinylcholine typically used for?

3. Where was the body of Daphne Mellon found?

4. How did the ME know Masgay had been frozen?

5. What does Baden believe was the motive for Tinning's murders?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the potassium eye fluid test.

2. Explain why the DA dropped the three additional murder charges against Kuklinski.

3. Explain how and why Jascalevich killed the patients of other doctors.

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

5. Explain the disparity between Dr. Lee's issued cause of death and Baden's issued cause of death for Dr. Brown.

6. 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.

7. Why did Kuklinski use cyanide, and how did Baden discover it on his victims?

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

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

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

John Belushi died of an overdose of heroin, according to Baden. Cathy Smith admits to giving Belushi the drugs, although she disagrees with his time of death, or that her specific injection caused his death. Regardless of these facts, do you think that, even if Cathy had injected Belushi's final dose, that her act constituted a crime? Why or why not? What does Baden say about most drug injection murder cases? Why did Belushi's case differ? Did Belushi's record of massive drug addiction predispose him to die of an overdose, regardless of who injected him? Why or why not?

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