10/19/22, 7:32 PM Quiz for Violent Asphyxial death: Attempt review

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Question 1
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51. One of the following is a definite sign of death due to drowning:

a. Sand and mud in the mouth and nostrils 

b. Fine lathery froth in the mouth and nostrils
c. Washerwoman’s hands and feet
d. Diatoms in bone marrow

The correct answer is: Diatoms in bone marrow

Question 2
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49. The most specific feature of death due to hanging is:

a. Tardieu spots 
b. Ligature mark
c. Fracture of thyroid cartilage
d. Dribbling of saliva

The correct answer is: Dribbling of saliva

Question 3
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36. Accidental drowning is ruled out if:

a. The body is tied up inside a gunny bag 

b. Hand and feet are tied by a ligature in way that is inconsistent with suicidal drowning
c. Heavy weights are attached in such a way that suicidal drowning is excluded
d. All of the above

The correct answer is: All of the above

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Question 4
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28. Hanging with the feet touching the ground is seen in:

a. Partial hanging
b. Complete hanging
c. Homicidal hanging
d. Suicidal hanging

The correct answer is: Partial hanging

Question 5
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32. Horizontal ligature mark in the neck is seen in:

a. Throttling 
b. Hanging
c. Strangulation by ligature
d. Chocking

The correct answer is: Strangulation by ligature

Question 6
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23. The conclusive postmortem finding of death by drowning:

a. Cutis anserina 
b. Presence of water in the middle ear
c. Edematous lungs
d. Demonstration of diatoms in the organs of the body

The correct answer is: Demonstration of diatoms in the organs of the body

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Question 7
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52. In a case of hanging neck ligature marks are example of:

a. Contusion 
b. Printed abrasion
c. Laceration
d. Bruise

The correct answer is: Printed abrasion

Question 8
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48. Dry drowning is defined as:

a. Drowning in sea water 

b. Drowning in cold water, death being due to cardiac arrest
c. Drowning of a dehydrated body
d. Drowning where death is due to laryngospasm

The correct answer is: Drowning where death is due to laryngospasm

Question 9
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42. Le facies sympathique is seen in:*

a. Traffic accident 
b. Hanging
c. Stragulation
d. Myocardial infarction

The correct answer is: Hanging

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Question 10
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19. Paltauf’s haemorrhages are seen in:

a. Eyes 
b. Lungs
c. Heart
d. Mesentery

The correct answer is: Lungs

Question 11
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5. Atypical hanging means:

a. Body is completely suspended 

b. Some part of the body resting on an object
c. Knot present on the back of head
d. Knot present near the right ear

The correct answer is: Knot present near the right ear

Question 12
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39. Hyperventilation before drowning:

a. Can cause rapid death

b. Does not alter the process of drowning
c. Can cause delayed death
d. Can cause secondary drowning

The correct answer is: Can cause rapid death

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Question 13
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16. Death in dry drowning is due to:

a. Laryngeal spasm
b. Vagal inhibition of heart
c. Hyperkalemia
d. Exhaustion

The correct answer is: Laryngeal spasm

Question 14
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57. Lynching is:

a. Practised in North America 

b. Practised by white people on Negroes
c. Hanging publicly on a tree
d. All of the above

The correct answer is: All of the above

Question 15
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4. Adduction fracture of hyoid bone may be seen in:

a. Ligature strangulation 
b. Manual strangulation
c. Hanging
d. Bansdola strangulation

The correct answer is: Manual strangulation

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Question 16
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41. Most common type of drowning is:

a. Suicidal 
b. Accidental
c. Homicidal
d. All of the above

The correct answer is: Accidental

Question 17
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24. White lathery froth is seen in deaths due to:

a. Drowning
b. Hanging
c. Organophosphorus poisoning
d. Mineral acid poisoning

The correct answer is: Drowning

Question 18
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21. Hyperventilation drowning deaths are:

a. Accidental
b. Suicidal
c. Homicidal
d. None of the above

The correct answer is: Accidental

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Question 19
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13. Cause of death in fresh water drowning is:

a. Myocardial ischaemia 
b. Laryngeal spasm
c. Vagal inhibition
d. Ventricular fibrillation

The correct answer is: Ventricular fibrillation

Question 20
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34. Which of the following sign will indicate that the death was antemortem?

a. Cutis anserina 
b. Washerwoman’s skin
c. Weed and grass in the hands
d. Cyanosis

The correct answer is: Weed and grass in the hands

Question 21
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55. Acid digestion test is used for:

a. To detect food content in stomach 

b. To detect fibre content in food
c. To detect diatoms in drowning
d. To detect metal pieces from gun injury

The correct answer is: To detect diatoms in drowning

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Question 22
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27. Which of the following is seen very rarely in hanging?

a. Fracture of hyoid cartilage 

b. Fracture of thyroid cartilage
c. Staining of saliva
d. Ligature mark

The correct answer is: Fracture of thyroid cartilage

Question 23
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3. Ligature mark of hanging is:

a. Transversely placed 
b. At the level of thyroid cartilage
c. Completely encircles the neck
d. Hard, pale and parchment like

The correct answer is: Hard, pale and parchment like

Question 24
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20. Commonly tissue preserved for the detection of diatoms in drowning death is:

a. Lungs 
b. Stomach
c. Liver
d. Sternum

The correct answer is: Sternum

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Question 25
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11. The cause of death in cafe-coronary is:

a. Laryngeal spasm
b. Coronary insufficiency
c. Coronary thrombosis
d. Myocardial ischaemia

The correct answer is: Laryngeal spasm

Question 26
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30. Petechial haemorrhages in drowning is seen in:

a. Subpleural tissues of lung

b. Submucosa of trachea
c. Bronchioles
d. Alveoli

The correct answer is: Subpleural tissues of lung

Question 27
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22. Burking consists of:

a. Smothering and traumatic asphyxia

b. Choking and drowning
c. Gagging only
d. Traumatic asphyxia only

The correct answer is: Smothering and traumatic asphyxia

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Question 28
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38. A method of homicidal smothering and traumatic asphyxia is known as:

a. Choking 
b. Gagging
c. Burking
d. Overlying

The correct answer is: Burking

Question 29
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46. Oedema aquosum occurs in:

a. Submersion of unconscious
b. Dry drowning
c. Secondary drowning
d. Immersion syndrome

The correct answer is: Submersion of unconscious

Question 30
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1. Most reliable sign of antemortem hanging is:

a. Congested face 
b. Protruded tongue
c. Hard and pale ligature mark
d. Dribbling of saliva

The correct answer is: Dribbling of saliva

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Question 31
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7. A type of homicidal strangulation is:

a. Lynching 
b. Smothering
c. Burking
d. Garroting

The correct answer is: Garroting

Question 32
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35. Cafe coronary commonly occurs when a person is:

a. Intoxicated
b. Eating fatty food
c. Eating meat
d. Eating fish

The correct answer is: Intoxicated

Question 33
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45. Maximum congestion is seen in:

a. Choking 
b. Hanging
c. Strangulation
d. Drowning

The correct answer is: Strangulation

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Question 34
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6. Transverse tear in the intima of carotid arteries may be seen in:

a. Partial hanging 
b. Judicial hanging
c. Bansdola strangulation
d. Garroting

The correct answer is: Judicial hanging

Question 35
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40. Atypical arrest due to drowning is:

a. Cardiac arrest due to drowning 

b. Laryngospasm due to drowning
c. Drowning in unconcious state
d. All of the above

The correct answer is: All of the above

Question 36
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12. Death is mostly accidental in:

a. Traumatic asphyxia
b. Hanging
c. Strangulation
d. Smothering

The correct answer is: Traumatic asphyxia

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Question 37
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25. Fractures of the hyoid bone results from all except:

a. Throttling 
b. Hanging
c. Choking
d. Ligature strangulation

The correct answer is: Choking

Question 38
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53. Gettler’s test is positive in:

a. Hanging 
b. Poisoning
c. Strangulation
d. Drowning

The correct answer is: Drowning

Question 39
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37. Froth of drowning can be differentiated from that due to other causes by:

a. Microscopic detection of mucous

b. Detecting excess of salt in the froth
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

The correct answer is: Microscopic detection of mucous

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Question 40
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29. Hyoid fracture is seen in:

a. Hanging
b. Strangulation
c. Burking
d. Throttling

Throttling is also the TRUE answer.

The correct answer is: Hanging

Question 41
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15. Hyperkalemia is normally associated with:

a. Dry drowning 
b. Fresh water drowning
c. Sea water drowning
d. Hydrocution

The correct answer is: Fresh water drowning

Question 42
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43. Suicidal drowning differs from homicidal drowning by the following except:

a. Absence of signs of struggle 

b. Marks of violence on body absent
c. Untorn clothes
d. None of the above

The correct answer is: None of the above

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Question 43
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44. Hanging is defined as:

a. Suspension of body by a ligature, body weight acting as constricting force

b. Suspension of body by ligature after death
c. Obliteration of air passages by external compression
d. Mechanical interference to respiration

The correct answer is: Suspension of body by a ligature, body weight acting as constricting force

Question 44
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33. Emphysema aqueosum is seen in:

a. Wet drowning
b. Secondary drowning
c. Dry drowning
d. Immersion syndrome

The correct answer is: Wet drowning

Question 45
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9. About 2 kgms of pressure on the neck can occlude:

a. Carotid arteries 
b. Vertebral arteries
c. Trachea
d. Jugular veins

The correct answer is: Jugular veins

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Question 46
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17. Hypostasis on the head and face, hands and feet are seen in death from:

a. Hanging 
b. Strangulation
c. Traumatic asphyxia
d. Drowning (in moving water no hypostasis)

The correct answer is: Drowning (in moving water no hypostasis)

Question 47
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56. Cafe coronary is due to:

a. MI 
b. Laryngeal spasm
c. Strangulation
d. Drowning

The correct answer is: Laryngeal spasm

Question 48
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2. In judicial hanging fracture dislocation of cervical vertebrae occur between:

a. C1 and C2 
b. Base of skull and C1
c. C2 and C3
d. C5 and C6

The correct answer is: C2 and C3

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Question 49
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10. Death in sexual asphyxia is normally:

a. Homicidal 
b. Suicidal
c. Accidental
d. Judicial

The correct answer is: Accidental

Question 50
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31. Paltauf’s haemorrhage occurs in which injury?

a. Strangulation 
b. Hanging
c. Drowning
d. Burns

The correct answer is: Drowning

Question 51
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8. For diatoms test the best site for taking sample is:

a. Lungs 
b. Bone marrow in ulna
c. Bone marrow in femur
d. Muscle

The correct answer is: Bone marrow in femur

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Question 52
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18. Which of the following is an important sign of antemortem drowning?

a. Washerwoman’s hands and feet 

b. Cutis anserina
c. Weeds held infirmly hands
d. Petecheal haemorrhages in the eyes

The correct answer is: Weeds held infirmly hands

Question 53
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50. Extensive bruising of neck muscles of ecchymosis of subcutaneous tissues in neck is characteristic of:

a. Hanging 
b. Strangulation
c. Throttling
d. Burking

The correct answer is: Throttling

Question 54
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14. Cause of death in hydrocution is:

a. Asphyxia 
b. Cardiac arrest
c. Pulmonary edema
d. Electrolyte disturbance

The correct answer is: Cardiac arrest

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Question 55
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47. Getler’s test is positive in:

a. Hanging 
b. Poisoning
c. Strangulation
d. Drowning

The correct answer is: Drowning

Question 56
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26. Death of judicial hanging is because of:

a. Vasovagal shock 
b. Occlusion of airway
c. Fracture dislocation of upper cervical vertebra
d. Coma

The correct answer is: Fracture dislocation of upper cervical vertebra

Question 57
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54. The postmortem finding seen in smothering:

a. Abrasion on the inner side of the upper lip

b. Fracture body of hyoid
c. Thyroid fracture
d. Curved marks on the neck

The correct answer is: Abrasion on the inner side of the upper lip

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