ASM 275 / ASM275 Unit Three Test.

• Question 1 1 out of 1 points You receive some skeletonized human remains in your lab. The individual has several broken bones. The fractures have sharp edges, angled ends and hinging. You conclude the person received these injuries: Selected Answers: While they were alive Many years before they died After they had died After they had been buried • Question 2 1 out of 1 points A skeleton comes into your lab that exhibits cranial trauma. There is a fracture in the middle of the left parietal and on the opposite side of the cranium in the middle of the right parietal. This could be an example of a: Answers: Contre-coup fracture Buttress fracture Ring fracture • Question 3 0 out of 1 points You receive a skeleton in your lab that exhibits a severe fracture to the face. The upper teeth and alveolar bone have separated from the rest of the skull. This injury was likely caused by: Answers: A blow to the lower face A blow to the bottom of the skull A blow to the nose A blow to the back of the • Question 4 1 out of 1 points An injury resulting from the same blow that caused two different wounds opposite one another because the force of impact has a counterforce is called: Answers: Ring fracture LeFort fracture Infraction Coup-Contrecoup • Question 5 Blows to the face often cause breaks known as: Answers: 1 out of 1 points LeFort fractures Ring fractures Infractions Buttress Fractures • Question 6 All of the following are indicative of postmortem trauma, EXCEPT: Answers: color at fracture is lighter than the rest of the bone green stick and hinge fractures are present breaks occur at right angles to bone shafts carnivore tooth marks • Question 7 In which type of individual are you most likely to see a greenstick fracture? Answers: Subadult Adult Elderly Deceased individual • Question 8 1 out of 1 points You have a case in your lab in which the individual died as a result of a beating from a baseball bat. This would be an example of what type of trauma? Answers: Blunt force Sharp force Projectile Emotiona l • Question 9 1 out of 1 points What type of trauma is the result of narrowly focused, compressive forces applied to the surface of a bone? Answers: taphonomy sharp force trauma projectile trauma dismemberment • Question 10 The diameter of a bullet and/or the barrel of a handgun are the: Answers: jacket gauge caliber profile • Question 11 1 out of 1 points Which of the following weapons would most likely cause a blunt force injury AND a sharp force injury on bone with the same blow? Selected Answers: an axe a kitchen knife an ice pick a baseball bat • Question 12 1 out of 1 points You suspect an individual in your lab was killed by many stab wounds from a closed pair of scissors. How would you expect these wounds to appear? Answers: Square punctures Cuts where both ends appear angled A deep cone-shaped puncture Cuts with one end appearing angled • Question 13 1 out of 1 points While out jogging, you trip and fall onto an outstretched arm, fracturing your distal radius. What is this kind of fracture called? Answers: Colles' fracture Torsion fracture Tension fracture Clay shoveler's fracture • Question 14 The 3 types of trauma in forensic analysis include: Answers: Projectile, blunt force, sharp force Projectile, emotional, sharp force Blunt force, sharp force, bludgeoning Blunt force, sharp force, bullets • Question 15 1 out of 1 points Clubs, bats, and 2 X 4 planks of wood are weapons that would cause which of the following types of trauma? Answers: projectile trauma sharp force trauma blunt force trauma taphonomy • Question 16 1 out of 1 points You receive an individual in your lab who has evidence of sharp force trauma. In one of the wounds, you notice that both ends of the wound appear angular. This individual was most likely injured by: Answers: A double-bladed knife A single-bladed knife A gunshot A screwdriver • Question 17 1 out of 1 points A skeletal individual in your lab displays a fracture of the distal ulna. You recognize this as a parry fracture. This person likely received this trauma from which of the following? Answers: Blocking a blow with an upraised arm Falling onto an outstretched arm The high speed of a car accident Repetitive stress from sports activities • Question 18 What type of trauma is represented here? Answers: blunt force trauma sharp force trauma shotgun blast this is normal • Question 19 1 out of 1 points I posted an article on Blackboard detailing the work of Dr. Steven Symes. What is his particular area of speciality within the forensic sciences? Answers: cut mark analysis forensic botany blunt force trauma from falls gun show wound analysis • Question 20 1 out of 1 points When a bullet impacts bone, it knocks out a larger center piece of bone called a and smaller pieces of bone called . Answers: Plug, spall Spall, plug Plug, infraction lines Bevel, spall • Question 21 1 out of 1 points You are given a cranium with evidence of a gunshot wound. On the parietal bone, you see a clear hole on the outside with evidence of beveling on the inner surface (the brain side). This would must be the: Answers: Entrance wound Exit wound Plug and spall Keyhole wound • Question 22 This individual was dismembered with a large toothed hand saw • Question 23 In the article entitled "Suicide by Blasting Cap" the extensive damage to the skull was compared to what other kind of trauma? Answers: high velocity gun shot wound low velocity fall motor vehicle accident chain saw decapitation • Question 24 1 out of 1 points While hiking, you come across a human skeleton that exhibits a severe fracture to the cranium. The face, including both orbits, has entirely separated from the cranial vault. This type of fracture is called a: Answers: LeFort III fracture LeFort I fracture Infraction Contre-coup fracture • Question 25 An injury that occurs at or around the time of death is: Answers: 1 out of 1 points perimortem antemortem postmortem premortem • Question 26 1 out of 1 points When a bone breaks in the ground well after a person died and was buried the break will generally be perpendicular to the long axis of the bone. Answers: Tru e False • Question 27 0 out of 1 points You are examining a victim who exhibits a stellate wound on her forehead. There is a seared, blackened area around the wound and no evidence of any soot or stippling around the edges. This person likely died of a: Answers: Contact gunshot A gunshot from several feet away Stab wound from a knife Bludgeoning from a bat or shovel • Question 28 1 out of 1 points According the West Memphis Three video, the confession produced by Misskelley: Answers: Accurately described the crime Contained many factual errors about the crime Occurred quickly None of the options • Question 29 In the reading by Ta’ala et al., skulls from the Cambodian Killing Fields had evidence of: Answers: Sharp trauma Blunt force trauma Healed trauma None of the options • Question 30 1 out of 1 points In the reading by Ta’ala et al., victims of the Cambodian Killing Fields displayed evidence of blunt force trauma on their: Answers: Parietal bone Frontal bone Temporal bone Occipital bone