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BOARD EXAM TRIAL

SOCIOLOGY OF CRIMES AND ETHICS


Prepared by: Apollo Batausa Jr. Top 4 April 2016 CLE, Rcrim

BOARD EXAM TRIAL


CRIMINALISTICS
Prepared by: Prof. Matthew Tobias Solomon, 2nd Placer, June 2017 CLE
1. What is the greek term for finger?
a. Daktylus a. Marcello malpighi
b. Dactylus b. Francis galton
c. Daktylos c. Johannes purkinje
d. Dactylos d. JCA Mayer

2. This refers to the scientific study of fingerprints 8. Who took the prints of his own palm in 1856
as a means of identification. This includes then in 1897, (forty one years later) he printed
fingerprint comparison and case presentation in the same palm to prove that the prints do not
courts. change.
a. Dactylography a. Thomas bewick
b. Dactyloscopy b. Henry faulds
c. Dactylomancy c. Herman welcker
d. None of these d. Juan vucetich

9. It is known the science of palm print


3. As an evidence category, this is one of the identification.
oldest and most important in all forensic science. a. Chiroscopy
a. Dna fingerprint b. Podoscopy
b. Anthropometric measurements c. Poroscopy
c. Photos d. Astrology
d. Fingerprinting
10. Who is considered as the father of chiroscopy
4. Microdactyl :small finger; who used fingerprints in india to prevent
polydactyl:______________. fraudulent collection of army pay account and for
a. Extra hand identification of other documents.
b. Extra nails a. William herschel
c. Extra finger b. Herman welcker
d. Extra hair c. John herschel
d. Henry faulds
5. Is the scientific study of fingerprint for
purposes of personality interpretation 11. Which of the following cannot be used as
a. Dactylography typeline?
b. Dactyloscopy a. Divergence
c. Dactylomancy b. angular formation
d. None of these c. 2 innermost ridges
d. 2 forks of bifurcation run parallel, then diverge
6. He is an english engraver, author, and
naturalist engraved the patterns of his own 12. A dogmatic principle which postulates that the
fingers on every woodwork he had finished to fingerprint is unique in every individual.
serve as his mark so as to establish its a. principle of individuality
genuineness. b. principle of constancy/permanency
a. Thomas bewick c. principle of infallibility
b. Henry faulds d. all of these
c. Herman welcker
d. Juan vucetich 13. When there is a definite break in type line,
what is considered as its continuation?
7. He stated in his book (anatomische a. the ridge immediately outside
kupfertafein nebst dazu geharigen) that although b. the ridge immediately inside
the arrangement of the skin ridges is never c. the ridge immediately follow
duplicated in two persons, nevertheless, the d. the ridge immediately succeeded
similarities are closer among some individuals.
Hence, the birth of the principle of permanency
of fingerprint patterns.

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14. What will be the ending ridge of any length a. Ridge
rising at a sufficient degree from the horizontal b. Friction skin
plane at least 45 or more? c. Dermal papillae
a. sufficient recurved d. Fingerprint
b. upthrust
c. shoulder of a loop 23. What are these structures on our palms that
d. recurving ridge are sometimes referred to as papillary or
epidermal ridges?
15. When there is a definite break in type line, a. Latent ridges
what is considered as its continuation? b. Friction ridges
a. the ridge immediately outside c. Dermal ridges
b. the ridge immediately inside d. Fingerprints
c. the ridge immediately follow
d. the ridge immediately succeeded 24. What part of the body has the thickest skin?
a. Volar pads
16. In 1911, the state of illinois made the first b. Palms
criminal conviction based solely upon fingerprint c. Volar skin
evidence. It was known as the first judicial ruling d. All of these
on such evidence in the case of_______.
a. People vs corral 25. What is the type of a pattern in which the
b. People vs jennings looping or slanting ridges flows towards the little
c. Lamble vs state finger?
d. State vs conners a. Little finger loop
b. Ulnar loop
17. What is the first leading judicial decision in c. Radial loop
the Philippine jurisprudence on the science of d. Ulnar whorl
fingerprinting?
a. People vs medina 26. What type of a pattern possesses two of the
b. Us vs conners three basic characteristics of the loop?
c. People vs coral a. Plain arch
d. People vs Jennings b. Radial loop
c. Tented arch
18. What is the system of identification which was d. Ulnar loop
used earlier than the fingerprints system, made
by measuring various bone structure of human 27. Friction ridges appear on the life of an
body? individual from the womb to tomb. Which among
a. anthropometry the principles of fingerprint best describes this?
b. portrait parle a. Constancy
c. anthropology b. Individuality
d. photography c. Infallibility
d. None of these
19. He was a filipino member of the fbi who
conducted the exam on dactyloscopy in the 28. In 1905, the Stratton brothers were convicted
philippines. after they were charged of murdering farrow
a. Capt, thomas dugan couple. This accomplishment was a work of?
b. Mary holland a. Henry
c. Flaviano guerrero b. Faulds
d. Isabela Bernales c. Vucetich
d. Herchel
20. The innermost ridges run parallel and
surrounded to the pattern area are known as 29. Located along the undersides of the fingers,
_______. palms, toes, and soles appear corrugated skin
a. Type lines structure known to the biologist. This term is
b. Long ridges related to the palm of the hand or the sole of the
c. Criss-crossing ridges foot specifically.
d. Ridgeology a. Friction skin
b. Fingerprints
21. The process of rendering latent prints to make c. Handprints
them visible is called ______________. d. Volar skin
a. Development
b. Visualization 30. Located along the undersides of the fingers,
c. Enhancement palms, toes, and soles appear corrugated skin
d. All of the aforementioned structure known to the fingerprint examiner.this
term is related to the palm of the hand or the sole
22. It is an impression designed by the first joint of the foot specifically.
of the fingers and thumb on smooth surface a. Friction skin
through the media of an ink, sweat or any b. Fingerprints
substance capable of producing visibility. c. Handprints

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d. Volar skin 40. It is a single ridge which bifurcates where the
bifurcating ridges converge at a certain point to
31. He first used fingerprints on native contracts form again into a single ridge.
in hooghly district in jungipoor, india a. Bifurcation
a. Sir william herchel b. Diverging ridge
b. Sir wiliam hershel c. Eyelet
c. Sir william hershel d. Converging ridge
d. Sir william Herschel
41. What type of pattern in which it could be
32. "A person's fingerprint on his birth until his found on the lower box of the fingerprint card
burial shall remain." what principle greatly having a delta and core with a recurving ridge
described the phrase? flowing towards the no. 6 finger?
a. Principle of constancy a. Ulnar loop
b. Principle of permanency b. Loop
c. Principle of perpetuity c. Radial loop
d. All of these d. Arches

33. Who is this native of charlotte who used 6th finger -Left Thumb
surgery to destroy his friction ridges and was
known as the "man without fingerprint"? 42. Under the principle of permanency, the
a. Robert James Pitts fingerprint will remain as it is until a person dies.
b. John Dillinger However, there are some instances where a scar
c. Robert James Pits is present in the fingerprint pattern that alters the
d. John Dilinger general pattern of the fingerprint. This usually
occurs when a person gets a scar that is _____
34. What is the first case and first conviction in deep.
the Philippines which gives recognition to the a. 1mm
science of fingerprint? b. 2mm
a. people vs. medina c. 1 cm
b. people vs. vera d. 2 cm
c. medina vs. people of the philippines
d. west case 43. Refers to condition wherein person has an
extra finger?
35. Which of the following refers to the study of a. Ankylosis
the soles of the feet? b. Sindactyl
a. Poroscopy c. Polydactyl
b. Edgeoscopy d. Webb finger
c. Podoscopy
d. Cheiloscopy 44. This kind of ridge characteristic is sometimes
being misconstrued as a bifurcating ridge due to
36. Ridge forms in the person's fingers and feet its close resemblance to it. This ridge is known
during its infant’s stage which usually starts: as:
a. 3rd to 4th months of the fetus life a. Trifurcation
b. 4th to 5th months after conception b. Forking ridge
c. 5th to 6th week of the fetus life c. Enclosure
d. 5th to 6th months after birth d. Converging ridge

37. It refers the study of the individual pattern of 45. The Bertillon system relied on a detailed
lip marks. description or ____________ of the subject,
a. poroscopy combined with full-length and profile
b. edgeoscopy photographs and system of precise body
c. podoscopy measurements known as anthropometry.
d. cheiloscopy a. Portrait parle
b. Speaking portrait
38. A phalange is a bone covered with friction b. Portrait farle
skin. Which one is located above the basal d. Spoken portrait
phalange?
a. Terminal 46. Pedro was born with a congenital bone
b. Intermediate deformity which resulted in his middle and ring
c. Basal finger to be attached to each other. This refers
d. Distal to?
a. Mutilation
39. Which of the following is not true about the b. Ectodactyl
value or the importance of fingerprinting? c. Webbed finger
a. Serve to provide evidence d. Supernumerary
b. Prevent criminal substitution
c. Help identify victims of calamities 47. These are tiny portions or is a hill-like
d. Speedily identifying the perpetrator structure found on the epidermis of friction skin

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containing sweat, with pores appearing as black 55. He was credited for the discovery of the two
lines in a fingerprint impression. main layers of the skin and a particular layer of
a. Imaginary lines the skin was named after him.
b. Furrows a. Dr. Johannes purkinje
b. Black lines b. Dr. Johanes purkinje
d. Ridges c. Marcelo Malpighi
d. Marcello malpighi
48. What is this principle in fingerprint that states
that fingerprint cannot be forged? This principle 56. If the same digits of both hands are missing
also denotes that fingerprint is a reliable and a the impressions are held to be
positive means of identification. a. Plain whorl meeting
a. principle of infallibility b. Depends on the adjacent fingers
b. principle of impeccability c. The pattern of the opposite finger
c. principle of perfectness d. Dependents on the classification of the print of
d. all of the following the finger

49. The following are not the requisites of a loop 57. In 1937, the first filipino fingerprint technician
except one, employed by the phil. Constabulary.
a. it must have 2 cores a. Mr. Generoso reyes
b. it must have a complete circuit b. Mr. Calixto solis
c. it must have a delta c. Mr. Amado delos santos
d. it must have a ridge trace of at least 1 d. None of these

50. In the field of fingerprinting, it refers to the 58. A person who commits a crime would always
process of determining the total number of leave traces such as hairs, prints and other
intervening ridges that touch an imaginary line minute pieces of evidentiary materials which may
drawn between the core and the delta. be considered as an integral part in the
a. Ridge counting identification of the suspect. In case he leaves
b. Delta tracing "latent prints", he can also be traced. These prints
c. Ridge tracing are made through the;
d. All of these a. ridges of the skin
b. furrows of the skin
51. A geologist in new mexico who adopted the c. perspiration on the opposite side of the volar
first individual use of fingerprint on august 8, skin
1882 by using his own thumb prints as protection d. perspiration on top of the finger
to prevent tampering with the pay order he
issued. 59. Fingerprints aid in pinpointing a person's
a. gilbert Thomson identity whether the person is really him or not.
b. Gilbert Thompson On what reason is this statement based?
c. Henri de forest a. its pattern reveals the characteristics of the
d. Henry de forest prints
b. fingerprints may trace the racial origin of a
52. He is an argentine police official who started person
the first fingerprint files based on patterns c. no two persons have identical
developed by his mentor, francis galton. He fingerprints
derived from galton his own system of classifying d. it can be lifted at the crime scene and
prints which was officially adopted in argentina compared with his fingerprint records
and other spanish speaking countries.
a. John Vucetich 60. What do you call the two innermost ridges
b. Juan Vucetich which diverged and tend to surround the pattern
c. Juan Vucetic area & serve as a basic boundary of fingerprint
d. John Vucetic pattern.
a. Diverging ridge
53. It is a condition in the bone where the fingers b. Pattern area
cannot be bent. c. Converging ridge
A. Syndactyl d. Typelines
b. Ankylosis
c. Webbed finger 61. For decades, this system of identification was
d. Supernumerary considered the most accurate. According to this
system, no two person have the same skeleton
54. He first used fingerprints on contracts with sizes and that the growth of the skeleton halts at
the natives of hooghly district in india and he is the age of 20. It is also known as the bertillonage
also known as father of chiroscopy. system.
a. Mayer a. Portrait parle
b. Henry b. Anthropometry
c. Welcker c. Tattoo
d. Herschel d. Photography

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62. The delta and the core are both referred to as c. Johannes purkinje
the ______ of the fingerprint pattern d. Marcello malphigi
a. Central points
b. Focus 70. It is a short ridge at the top or summit of a
c. Heart recurve usually at right angle. This stops a
d. Focal points recurving ridge from being a sufficient recurve.
a. Abutting ridge
63. The notorious gangster and a police b. appendage
character, who attempted to erase his c. Rod or bar
fingerprints by burning them with acid but as time d. None of these
went by the ridges were again restored to their
"natural" feature. 71. Francisca rojas, an illegitimate mother of her
a. James dellinger two children,was accused of murdering her own
b. John dellinger children because of the latent prints that have
c. Jared dillinger been found on the scene of the crime. Who is that
d. John Dillinger person whose participation was really vital in
unfolding the truth to this case through the
64. He is a pioneer in the field of fingerprint who collected fingerprints found in the crime scene?
introduced the fingerprint classifications which a. Manuel montesimos
dominates almost all english-speaking countries b. Juan vucetich
of the world. (juan vucetich devised the system c. Francis galton
which the spanish speaking countries adopted.) d. Alberto del rio
a. Sir Francis Galton
b. Sir Edward Richard Henry 72. Fingerprint identification is now one of the
c. Professor Johannese purkinje most indispensable tools of investigation because
d. Dr. Henry faulds of its use in identifying the perpetrators.
Classifying the person's fingerprints is a work
65. Is the basic principle involve in personal of/the art of:
identification which states that the greater the A. Montesimos
number of similarity or difference the greater the b. Galton
probability for the identity or non-identity to be c. Puekinje
conclusive. d. Henry
a. law of individuality
b. law of multiplicity of evidence 73. Patrolman Ruego collected some fingerprints
c. law of infallibility in the crime scene. She sent the collected
d. law of multiplication specimen for evidentiary use. The defense
attorney objected on the admissibility of such
66. The space between shoulders of a loop, free because he believed that fingerprints may be
of any appendage, and a butting at right angle. forged. The court did not sustain the objection.
a. appendage What do you think was the basis of the judge's
c. ridge hook rejection of the objection?
b. sufficient recurve a. The principle of individuality
d. galton's details b. Principle of infallibility
c. Principle of permanency
67. The ridge characteristic in which a single ridge d. None of these
does not remain close but which legs after along
side by side for short distance, remains open. 74. Many criminals have tried to defacing their
a. Enclosure fingerprint just to evade their crimes. Some burn
b. Island ridge it with the use of acid while others remove the
c. Converging ridges volar skin hoping their prints will be erased. Who
d. Fork is that person famously known as snake eyes who
tried removed his fingerprints?
68. If the ridge that curves back in the direction a. Dillinger
in which it started, it is called a ________. b. Scarface
(commonly found in loop patterns) c. Roscoe
a. sufficient recurve d. Pitt
b. recurving ridge
c. appendage 75. When the innermost sufficient recurve
d. rod contains an even number of rods rising as high as
the shoulders, the core is placed upon the end of
69. Knowledge of fingerprint's unique nature the _____one of the two center rods. The two
doesn't appear to have surfaced the european rods being treated as though they were
countries until a lecture given by a british doctor connected by a recurving ridge
who was a fellow of the royal society. Who is that a. Nearest
person that published the treatise entitled "de b. Higher
externo tactus organo anatomica obseruatio"? c. Farther
a. Nehemiah grew d. Lower
b. Francis galton

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76. Palmar: palm of the hand plantar: ______ d. Point at which the recurving ridge definitely
a. Soles of the feet turns or curves.
c. Ridges in the fingers
b. Furrowed skin 84. Which of the following conditions are
c. None of these observed before fragments and dots are counted
in ridge counting?
77. Afis is a system for storing and recording of a. They must be touched or cut by the imaginary
fingerprints for future reference. Afis means line
a. Automatic fingerprint identification system b. They must be as thick and heavy as other
b. Automated fingerprint identification ridges
system c. They must be as long as the other ridges
c. Automatic fingerprint identifying system d. They must be found inside the pattern area
d. Automated fingerprint identifying system
85. If an appendage is present between the
78. Patterns possess all the characteristics shoulders of a loop (innermost recurve), the one
needed on the investigation that may be bring being considered for purposes of locating the core
light on a certain case. What kind of sweat gland is
that can be found underneath these patterns? a. Next loop outside with appendage
a. Sudoriferous gland b. Next loop inside without appendage
b. Epecrine gland c. The same loop even with an appendage
c. Eccrine gland d. Next loop outside having no appendage
d. Apocrine gland
86. An additional formula which serves as
79. Which of the following ridge characteristics reference in case of doubtful prints. Place at the
will be highly prioritized as delta? bottom of classification formula.
a. a short ridge over an island at its a. Classification line
divergence point b. Reference line
b. a bifurcation leading towards the outside c. Classification formula
direction of the pattern farther with the core d. Reference classification formula
c. a ridge ending that have reached the very
shoulder of the ridges 87. Generally speaking, fingerprints found at the
d. none of these crime scene are called
a. Latent print
80. It is the very center point of the pattern area b. Chance impressions
and one of the very important focal points of a c. Chance prints
certain pattern especially for loops. What is that d. Latent impressions
core of the pattern having a terminal point?
a. Core 88. A bloody fingerprint was found at the crime
b. Delta scene. What kind of latent print is this?
c. Ridge end a. Visible
d. Short ridge b. Invisible
c. Semi-visibe
81. A delta may be any of the following, except d. None of these
a. Bifurcation opening towards the delta
b. Dot or fragment as thick as the other ridges 89. These are generally made by sweat or
c. A point on the first recurving ridge located perspiration that requires developing for visibility.
nearest to the center and in front of the a. Visible
divergence of the type lines b. Invisible
d. A meeting of two ridges c. Semi-visible
d. None of these
82. When a pattern shows two or more possible
deltas none is bifurcation, the one _________ the 90. These are prints that are not totally visible
core is chosen as the delta and example would be fingerprint impression
a. Outside made on a melted candle.
b. Inside a. Visible
c. Nearest b. Semi-visible
d. Farthest c. Invisible
d. None of these
83. The core of the loop is usually located on the
point along the shoulder of a loop which is farther 91. What is the process of verifying the rolled
away from the delta. A shoulder of the loop is impression using the plain impression as guide
_______. reference?
a. Unusual ridge structures having no well- a. Rolling
defined patterns b. Blocking out
b. Point at which the recurving ridge c. Checking
definitely turns or curves. d. None of these
c. Point at which the recurving ridge definitely
turns or curves. 92. In the classification line, the order should be

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a. Key, Major, Primary, Secondary, Sub- 99. Before the arrival of the dna test, personal
secondary, Final identification through fingerprints is most widely
b. Primary, Secondary, Sub Secondary, Major, used around the country and around the world in
Key, Final positively identifying person especially if the
c. Primary, Major, Secondary, Sub Secondary, subject is beyond recognition. The reason behind
Final, Key, Major this lies on the principle that:
d. Major, Key, Primary, Secondary, Sub a. its pattern reveals racial origin
Secondary, Final b. they are available in most places
c. it can be lifted at the crime scene
93. What is the process of placing under each d. no two persons have identical
pattern the letter symbol representing their fingerprints
pattern interpretation prior to the actual
classification formula? 100. _______ are rolled towards the body and
a. Blocking out ____ are rolled away from the body.
b. Rolling a. Thumb; index
c. Checking b. All other fingers; thumb
d. None of these c. Index; thumb
d. Thumb; all other fingers
94. Fingerprint impression is taken
simultaneously pressing the finger to the card, FORENSIC BALLISTICS
used as reference for the placement of the
fingerprints in the fingerprint card. 1. What is the mark generally found on cartridge
a. Plain impressions case fired from an automatic firearm? It is located
b. Simultaneous impressions near the rim of the case cause by the throwing of
c. Rolled impressions shell from the firearm to the area of shooting?
d. Chance impressions a. Firing Pin Mark
b. Extractor Mark
95. This kind of impression is taken individually c. Ejector mark
by rolling each finger from one side to the other d. Chamber Mark
side and from the tip to the end of the first joint.
a. Plain impression 2. What is the forward motion of the bullet or
b. Simultaneous impression shots out of the shell by the action of the
c. Rolled impression expansive force of gases from a burning
d. Chance impression gunpowder?
a. Rotatory motion
96.This pattern has 2 deltas and a core with few b. Transnational motion
spiral formations at the center. Provided the c. Translational motion
prints were accompanied by an upthrust, what d. Direct Motion
type of print is it?
a. T 3. The study of the motion of the projectile as
b. C applied to law or simply the science of firearm
c. X identification by means of the ammunition fired
d. W through them.
a. ballistics
97. On the inside part of a pattern, there are so b. forensic ballistics
many ridges present that would help the c. ballista
investigators in identifying a certain pattern d. ballo
especially in dealing with a loop pattern. Some
prints produce two ridges emanating from one 4. What is the highly sensitive chemical
ridge and diverges producing a v-one of these compound which ignites by the mechanical blow
characteristic is sometimes known as the railway of the firing pin? It is also called as percussion
tie. powder.
a. Ridge hook a. Priming Mixture
b. Appendage b. Anvil
c. Ridge ending c. Disc
d. Bridge d. Primer Cup

98. In the final division, ridge counting of loop is 5. What is the type of shotgun bore in which the
the usual process being done once it appears in bore size is the same throughout the barrel?
the little finger. If there is no loop pattern in the a. Choke bored gun
finger, a whorl pattern shall be ridge counter. b. Paradox gun
How will you treat a Plain or Central Pocket Loop c. Cylinder bore type
for the purpose of getting its final classification? d. Smooth bore
a. It represents a dash
b. Treated as an Ulnar Loop 6. The cylindrical groove on the mouth of the shell
c. Getting the least ridge count designed for two purposes: One (1) is to hold the
d. By getting the ridge count of the loop bullet and prevent it from being pull out from the
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out of the neck to ensure burning of the gun a. body
powder. b. shoulder
a. crimp c. vent or flash hole
b. cannelure d. cannelure
c. neck
d. body 15. What is the noise created at the muzzle point
of the gun?
7. It refers to the force of the air encounter by a. Muzzle Blast
the bullet in its flight. b.Trajectory
a. Muzzle Blast c. Air Resistance
b. Trajectory d. muzzle energy
c. Air Resistance
d. Muzzle energy 16. Refers to the imaginary straight distance
between the muzzle of the gun and the target.
8. Cartridge Case is also known as… a. range
a. primer b. accurate range
b. shell or casing c. effective range
c. gunpowder residue d. maximum range
d. bore
17. What is the bottom portion of the cartridge
9. It refers to the parabola-like flight of the case which contains the head stamp marking on
projectile from the time it leaves the muzzle until the base of the shell containing the caliber,
it hits the target. It is also described as the actual manufacturer and in some cases including the
curve path taken by a bullet during its. date, trade name, and batch number?
a. Muzzle Blast a. rim
b. Trajectory b. extracting grooves
c. Air Resistance c. primer pocket
d. Muzzle energy d. base

10. What is the mark generally found at the base 18. What is the instrument used for the
portion of the cartridge case more specifically propulsion of projectile by means of the
near center of the primer cup in a center fire expansive force gases coming from burning
cartridge or at the rim cavity of a rim-fire gunpowder.
cartridge? a. rifle
a. Firing Pin Mark b. gunpowder
b. Extractor Mark c. cartridge case
c. Ejector mark d. firearm -technical definition
d. Chamber Mark
Legal definition
11. Who is the father of modern ballistics? Firearms or Arm (legal – Sec. 877 of the RAC and
a. Col. Calvin H. Goddard Sec. 290 of NIRC) – includes rifles, muskets,
b. David “Carbine” Williams carbines, shotguns, pistols, revolvers and all
c. John M. Browning other weapons from which a bullet, a ball, a shot,
d. Samuel Colt
a shell or missiles may be discharged by means of
12. Still in very rare occasions another type of gunpowder or other explosives. The term also
shotgun can be observed to be having rifling only includes air rifles, except that are in small in
a few inches from its muzzle points. This pertains caliber and usually used as toys. The barrel of any
to… firearm is considered a complete firearm for
a. Choke bored gun purposes of Section 877 of the Revised
b. Paradox gun Administrative Code.
c. Cylinder bore type
d. Smooth bore 19. Priming mixture is also known as…
a. primer
13. Marks that are generally found on fired bullet b. gun powder
from a revolver. It is more or less located at the c. percussion powder
anterior portion of the fired bullet due to its d. primer cup
forward movement from the chamber to the
barrel of the gun before it initially rotates. 20. What is the action of the bullet passing
a. Skid marks through a rifled bore barrel firearm which is either
b. land mark twisted to the left or to the right?
c. groove mark a. Rotatory motion
d. stripping mark b. Transnational motion
c. Translational motion
14. What is the cylindrical groove in the outer d. Direct Motion
surface of the cartridge case designed to secure
the shell to the chamber as well as prevent bullet
from being push down to the powder charge?

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21. Wizard of the modern firearms and pioneered 30. Another portion of the recoil action
the breech loading single shot rifled which was characterized as the backward and upward
adopted by Winchester. movement of that takes place before the bullet
a. Alexander John Forsyth leaves the muzzle.
b. John C. Garand a. recoil
c. John M. Browning b. muzzle blast
d. Major Uziel Gal c. energy generated
d. jump
22. The brass gilding metal cup which contains
the priming mixture, the disc and the anvil. 31. What is the circular groove near the rim of the
a. Priming Mixture shell designed for automatic withdrawal of the
b. Anvil case from the chamber?
c. Disc a. rim
d. Primer Cup b. extracting grooves
c. primer pocket
23. What is the farthest distance the bullet could d. base
travel? It is the distance that a projectile can be
propelled from a firearm. 32. Firearms that have rifling inside their gun
a. range barrel.
b. accurate range a. smooth bore firearm
c. effective range b. artillery
d. maximum range c. small arms
d. rifled bore firearm
24. What is the mixture of chemicals of various
compositions designed to propel the projectile by 33. What is the metallic or non-metallic tabular
means of its expansive force of gas when burned? container usually of brass (70% copper and 30%
a. primer zinc) designed to unite the bullet, primer and the
b. percussion cap gunpowder into one unit? It is also known as shell
c. percussion powder or casing.
d. gunpowder a. cartridge case
b. firearm
25. What is the distance measured between two c. gunpowder
opposite lands inside the bore in a hundredths or d. rifling
thousandths of an inch? It is diameter to which
the bore was reamed. 34. A smooth bore and a breech loading shoulder
a. gauge arms designed to fire a number of lead pellets or
b. caliber shots in one charge.
c. millimeter a. shotgun
d. bore diameter b. rifle
c. carbine
26. What is the cylindrical part of the shell which d. musket
house the gunpowder?
a. body 35. Refers to those type of firearms that propels
b. shoulder projectile with more than one-inch diameter.
c. vent or flash hole a. small arms
d. cannelure b. machine gun
c. artillery
27. Gunpowder is also known as… d. Sub machine gun
a. percussion powder
b. residue 36. An ancient smoothbore and muzzle loading
c. ignition military shoulder arms designed to fire shots or a
d. propellant or powder charge single round lead ball.
a. rifle
28. What are the elevated portion of the bore of b. carbine
the firearm? c. musket
a. Lands d. shotgun
b. Grooves
c. bore 37. Are firearms that propels projectile with less
d. rifling than one-inch diameter and it can be handled,
moved and operated by one man.
29. Firearms that have no rifling (lands and a. small arms
grooves) inside their gun barrel. b. machine gun
a. smooth bore firearm c. artillery
b. artillery d. Sub machine gun
c. small arms
d. rifled bore firearm 38. A short barrel rifle, with its barrel rifle,
measuring not longer than 22 inches. It fires a
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automatic or fully automatic, for every press of mixture to impart an ignition to the propellant
the trigger. charge?
a rifle a. body
b. carbine b. shoulder
c. musket c. vent or flash hole
d. shotgun d. cannelure

39. Is a light, portable form of machine gun, 47. What is the type of shotgun bore designed
utilizing a pistol size ammunition, having a with a diminishing or reducing bore diameter type
shoulder stock that may or may not be folded and towards the muzzle.? This type is designed to
designed to be fired with both hands. cause an effect to the travel of the shots. It
a. small arms makes the shots travel longer before it spreads.
b. machine gun a. Choke bored gun
c. artillery b. Paradox gun
d. Sub machine gun c. Cylinder bore type
d. Smooth bore
40. What is the part of the cartridge designed to
limit the forward movement of the cartridge to 48. What is the thin paper or foil which is pressed
chamber? over the priming mixture in order to protect it
a. rim from moisture attack?
b. extracting grooves a. Priming Mixture
c. primer pocket b. Anvil
d. base c. Disc
d. Primer Cup
41. A shoulder weapon designed to fire a
projectile with more accuracy through a long 49. What is the action of bullet once it hits a
rifled bore barrel, usually more than 22 inches. target and subsequently ricocheted?
a. rifle a. Rotatory motion
b. carbine b. Transnational motion
c. musket c. Translational motion
d. shotgun d. Direct Motion

42. What is the type of firearm designed to 50. What is the mark mostly found around the
position cartridge into position for firing with the body of the fired cartridge case caused by the
aid of a rotating cylinder serving as its chamber? irregularities of nips inside the walls of the
a. pistol chamber?
b. revolver a. Breech Face Mark
c. single action b. Extractor Mark
d. double action c. Shearing Mark
d. Chamber mark
43. What is the portion of the primer which
provides solid support and absorbs the blow of 51. What Is the equal and opposite reaction of
the firing pin causing friction that would initiates the gun against the forward movement of the
ignition? bullet upon explosion.
a. Priming Mixture a. Energy generated
b. Anvil b. recoil
c. Disc c. Expansion of heated gas
d. Primer Cup d. muzzle blast

44. What is the type of revolver that needs a 52. Which of the following is used to measure
manual cocking of the hammer before squeezing Pitch of rifling?
the trigger? a. caliper
a. pistol b. chronograph
b. revolver c. bullet comparison microscope
c. single action d. helixometer
d. double action
53. A type of bullet, which is intended for anti-
45. A type of revolver that does not need manual personnel and general use.
cocking. Just press the trigger and it both cocked a. ball type
and released the hammer causing a much faster b. Armor Piercing
firing. c. Incendiary Bullet
a. pistol d. Explosive Bullet
b. revolver
c. single action 54. Used to measure caliber of F/A, bullet and
d. double action shells.
a. caliper
46. What is the hole at the bottom of the primer b. chronograph
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d. helixometer b. Bullet Comparison Microscope
c. Analytical or Torsion Balance
55. What is the type of military bullet designed to d. chronograph
penetrate light steel armor?
a. ball type 64. A type of military bullet used to cause fire in
b. Armor Piercing a target, generally designed to use by aircraft
c. Incendiary Bullet armament in order for the fuel tanks to ignite.
d. Explosive Bullet a. ball type
b. Armor Piercing
56. What kind of primer has two flash holes? c. Incendiary Bullet
a. Berdan d. Explosive Bullet
b. Boxer
c. Hiram 65. Type of rifling having four (4) lands and
d. Edward grooves, right twist and the width of the lands
grooves. (4 RG=L)
57. A type of military bullet capable of leaving a. Carbine Type
visible marks or traces while in flight giving the b. Smith and Wesson
gunner the chance to observe the strike of the c. Colt
shot or make adjustments in the event of a miss d. Steyer Type
a. ball type
b. Armor Piercing 66. What are those characteristics of a firearm
c. Incendiary Bullet which are being determined only after the same
d. Tracer Bullet has already been manufactured?
a. individual characteristics
58. Rifling inside the barrel of the gun is either b. internal ballistic
twisted to the left or to the right which cause c. external ballistics
bullet to rotate as it passes through the bore, in d. class characteristics
order to ensure gyroscopic stability in its flight.
This characteristic of firearm pertains to… 67. It refers to the size of the bullet grouping on
a. Pitch of rifling the target.
b. Direction of twist a. Terminal Penetration
c. Number of land and grooves b. Terminal Energy
d. Depth of grooves c. Terminal Velocity
d. Terminal Accuracy
59. It is use for comparison of test bullets and
fired bullets or shells. 68. The priming mixture (composing of the
a. Bullet Recovery box KCLO3, sulfur and carbon) located either at the
b. Bullet Comparison Microscope cavity rim or at the center of the primer upon the
c. Analytical or Torsion Balance striking effect of the firing pin will ignite and such
d. chronograph action is known as ….
a. explosion
60. It is a small bullet containing a charge of b. Muzzle blast
explosive, which will detonate on impact. c. percussion action
a. ball type d. ignition
b. Armor Piercing
c. Incendiary Bullet 69. For recovered firearms, the markings should
d. Explosive Bullet be placed on what specific part of firearm?
a. Inside of barrel
61. Which of the following may be used to b. Hammer
measure velocity of the bullet? c. Frame
a. caliper d. Trigger
b. chronograph
c. bullet comparison microscope 70. This branch of ballistics is the product of the
d. helixometer application of the ballistics to law.
a. Interior (Internal) Ballistics
62. It is the measure of the twisting of the lands b. Exterior (external) Ballistics
and grooves. It refers to the measure of the c. Terminal Ballistics
distance advance by the rifling in order to make d. Forensic Ballistics
a complete turn inside the barrel. This
characteristic of firearm pertains to… 71. What is the speed of the bullet upon striking
a. Pitch of rifling the target?
b. Direction of twist a. Terminal Penetration
c. Number of land and grooves b. Terminal Energy
d. Depth of grooves c. Terminal Velocity
d. Terminal Accuracy
63. Which of the following is used to measure
equivalent weight of the bullet?
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72. Rifling having (4) lands and grooves, right 80. The depth of entry of the bullet in the target.
twist, the width of the grooves is two (2) times a. Terminal Penetration
the width of the lands (4RG2X). b. Terminal Energy
a. Carbine Type c. Terminal Velocity
b. Smith and Wesson d. Terminal Accuracy
c. Colt
d. Steyer Type 81. What are the characteristics of firearm
resulting from machine imperfections and some
73. Treats of the motion of the projectile while it later due to the used of the firearms?
is still inside the firearm (chamber /barrel) which a. individual characteristics
extends from the breech to the muzzle. b. internal ballistic
a. Interior (Internal) Ballistics c. external ballistics
b. Exterior (external) Ballistics d. class characteristics
c. Terminal Ballistics
d. Forensic Ballistics 82. What is the branch of Ballistics which deals
with the effects of the impact of the projectile on
74. What are those properties or attributes of a the target?
firearms which can be determined even before a. Interior (Internal) Ballistics
the manufacture of the gun? b. Exterior (external) Ballistics
a. individual characteristics c. Terminal Ballistics
b. internal ballistic d. Forensic Ballistics
c. external ballistics
d. class characteristics 83. Type of rifling having six (6) lands and
grooves, left twist, the width of the grooves is
75. What is written authority issued to any person twice (2) the width of the lands. (6LG2X)
by the Chief of PNP which entitles such person to a. Carbine Type
carry his licensed or lawfully issued firearms b. Smith and Wesson
outside of residence for the duration and purpose c. Colt
specified therein? d. Steyer Type
a. firearm license
b. authority 84. What are the characteristics of firearm
c. franchise resulting from machine imperfections and some
d. permit to carry firearm outside residence later due to the used of the firearms?
a. individual characteristics
76.Refers to a group of cartridge or to a single b. internal ballistic
cartridge. Cartridge is a complete unfired unit c. external ballistics
consisting of bullet (ball), primer (cap), cartridge d. class characteristics
case (shell) and gunpowder.
a. slug 85. Refers to a cartridge in which primer cup
b. gunpowder (ignition cap) is centrally placed in the base of the
c. ordnance cartridge case and the priming mixture is
d. ammunition exploded by the impact of the firing pin and with
the support of the anvil.
77. What is the type of cartridge in which the a. flint-lock
ignition cap (primer) is concealed inside the b. pin-fire
cartridge case and has a pin resting upon it. c. rim-fire
a. flint-lock d. center fire
b. pin-fire
c. rim-fire 86. What is the type of bullet that is basically
d. center fire composed of lead metal? Its used was due to its
density; having a good weight is a small size and
78. Rifling having (5) lands and grooves, right easy for casting.
hand twist, the width of the land and grooves are a. lead type
equal. (5RG=L) b. jacketed type
a. Carbine Type c. bullet
b. Smith and Wesson d. slug
c. Colt
d. Steyer Type 87. What are those properties or attributes of a
firearms which can be determined even before
79. A type of cartridge in which the priming the manufacture of the gun?
mixture is located at the hallow rim of the case a. individual characteristics
can be fired if the cartridge is tuck by the firing b. internal ballistic
pin on the rim of the case (cavity rim). c. external ballistics
a. flint-lock d. class characteristics
b. pin-fire
c. rim-fire 88. It is a type of bullet consisting of the regular
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prevent lead fouling of the barrel and is generally d. chronograph
used in pistols and other high-power guns.
a. lead type 98. The backward or rearward movement of the
b. jacketed type gun in relation to the forward movement of the
c. bullet bullet.
d. slug a. recoil
b. muzzle blast
89. It is the energy or force of the projectile when c. energy generated
it strikes the target same as striking energy. d. expansion of heated gas
a. Terminal Penetration
b. Terminal Energy 99. For recovered firearms, the markings should
c. Terminal Velocity be placed on what specific part of firearm?
d. Terminal Accuracy a. Inside of barrel
b. Hammer
90. Treats of the attributes or movement of the c. Frame
projectile after leaving the gun muzzle. d. Trigger
a. Interior (Internal) Ballistics
b. Exterior (external) Ballistics 100. Which of the following is used to measure
c. Terminal Ballistics Pitch of rifling?
d. Forensic Ballistics a. caliper
b. chronograph
91. A bullet is also known as… c. bullet comparison microscope
a. lead type d. helixometer
b. jacketed
c. ammunition LEGAL MEDICINE
d. slug/shot
1. The following are types of medical evidence,
92. What is the part of a cartridge which is also except:
known as CAP? a. Photographic evidence
a. primer b. Testimonial evidence
b body c. Experimental evidence
c. base d. Autoptic evidence
d. rim
2. Alex developed a form of sexual gratification
93. The word Ballistics was derived from two characterized by the compulsive desire to rub his
Greek word_____________, which means “to sex organ against some parts of the body of
throw.” another. This sexual deviation is called
a. ballo a. Fetishism
b. ballista b. Satyriasis
c. ballum c. Frottage
d. ballor d. Pygmalionism

94. Caliber .22 is equivalent to… 3. Some scientific methods of identification are
a. About 5.59 mm the following, except:
b. About 11 mm a. Fingerprinting
c. About 9 mm b. Handwriting
d. About 7.63 mm c. Dental identification
d. Identification by close friends and
95. Caliber .38 is equivalent to … relatives
a. About 5.59 mm
b. About 11 mm 4. Examination of dental records in determining
c. About 9 mm the identity of the body
d. About 7.63 mm a. Pathology
b. Odontology
96. The term ballistics is also said to have been c. Serology
derived from the Roman war machine called d. Orthopedically
___________ a gigantic catapult that was used
to furl missiles or large object at a distance like 5. In the strict sense of the word, Forensic
stone, dead animal or even dead person. Medicine means
a. ballo a. Application of medicine to legal cases
b. ballista b. Application of medical science to
c. ballum elucidate legal problems
d. ballor c. Knowledge of law in relation to practice of
medicine
97. It is use to obtain test bullets and test shells. d. None of the above
a. Bullet Recovery box e. All of the above
b. Bullet Comparison Microscope
c. Analytical or Torsion Balance

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6. The different test to determine peripheral a. the factor of suspension
circulation are the following, except b. hanging raises a presumption of suicide
a. Magnus test c. strangulation is usually homicidal
b. Diaphanous test d. all of the above
c. Icard’s test e. none of the above
d. Winslow’s test
15. Distinctions between ante-mortem from post-
7. The following officials of the Philippine mortem clot are the following. Which one is not
Government are authorized to conduct death valid?
investigation, except a. ante-mortem clot is firm in consistency
a. Provincial and City Prosecutors b. clot is homogenous in construction so it cannot
b. Judges of the RTC, MTC be stripped into layers
c. Director of NBI c. clot with varied colors
d. Public Prosecutors d. surface of the blood vessels are raw after the
clots are removed
8. The following statements are important in
death determination. Which is not valid? 16. Post-mortem lividity maybe due to any of the
a. Civil personality of a natural person is following, except:
extinguished by death a. hypostasis
b. Civil property of a person is transmitted to the b. autolysis
heirs, if not, to the government c. diffusion
c. The death of the partner is one of the causes d. suggillation
of dissolution of partnership agreement
d. The criminal liability of a person is extinguished 17. Comprehensive study of dead body,
by death performed by a trained Physician, to determine
the cause of death:
9. The following are kinds of death, which one is a. autopsy
not? b. biophsis
a. Somatic or Clinical Death c. dissection
b. State of Suspended Animation d. physicians
c. Cellular or Molecular Death
d. Regulated Death 18. Articles and materials found in the crime
scene:
10. Of the following kinds of death, which one is a. physical evidence
relevant to Organ Transportation? b. associative evidence
a. Somatic or clinical Death c. evidence
b. State of Suspended Animation d. tracing evidence
c. Molecular Death
d. Cellular Death 19. It is the system used in the Philippines at
present which is handled by a medico-legal officer
11. To find out the truth is an essential who is a registered physician duly qualified to
requirement for the administration of Justice. practice medicine in the Philippines.
Which of the following is the commonly used a. medical jurisprudence
method of deception detection? b. medico- legal system
a. Lie detection method c. medical evidence
b. Use of drugs d. physical evidence
c. Hypnotism
d. Confession 20. Among the following, which has the greatest
value in scientific examination/identification?
12. In molecular or cellular death, death of a. dental examination
individual cells is with in b. fingerprinting
a. 3-6 minutes c. photography
b. 3-6 hours d. pictures parle
c. 20-30 minutes
d. 20-30 hours 21. One is a condition that can approximate the
time of death.
13. Post-mortem lividity has the following a. cadaver
mechanisms: b. magnus test
a. hypostatic pressure c. rigor mortis
b. diffusion d. none of these
c. gravitational pressure
d. all of the above 22. The means sanctioned by the law, of
ascertaining the judicial Power/proceeding, the
14. Hanging is asphyxia due to the constriction of truth respecting the matter of fact.
the neck as a result of suspension in which the a. polygraph
weight of the body pulls upon the ligature. What b. evidence
differentiates it from strangulation by a ligature c. lie detector
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31. An open wound produced by the penetration
23. Determination of individuality of a person or of shots that usually lodge on the body of the
thing: victim is categorized as shotgun wound which is
a. description generally under the investigative process of:
b. perception a. shotgun wound
c. identification b. ballistics
d. all of these c. firearms identification
d. gunshot wounds
24. A type of asphyxia death associated with the
failure of the arterial blood to become normally 32. Approximately, height can be measure by
saturated with oxygen. extending the middle fingers of both hands
a. anoxic death laterally. What age when a person ceases to
b. anemic anoxic death increase in height?
c. stagnant anoxic death a. 24
d. histotoxic anoxic death b. 23
c. 25
25. It is any unusual pattern of sexual behavior d. 26
including habitual, preference and completing
need for sexual gratification by any means except 33. Mr. Barton was caught stealing the personal
sexual intercourse which results to bodily belongings of Mr. Rogers particularly a pale of
excitement paint. When Mr. Barton fled together with the
a. virginity stolen item, he did not noticed that there was a
b. sexual intercourse hole in the pale that cause a continues dropping
c. prostitution of the paint. These drops of paint are example of
d. sexual deviation physical evidence which can be considered as…
a. corpus delicti evidence
26. An open wound produced by a sharp-pointed b. associative evidence
instrument and is characterized by a small c. tracing evidence
opening of the wound. d. none of these
a. gunshot wound
b. stab wound 34. Mr. Saber walks like a robot. His legs are held
c. shrapnel wound together and the steps are dragged and short. It
d. punctured wound is the best description of what manner of
walking?
27. A physical injury wherein the offended victim a. cerebellar
is incapacitated for work or requires medical b. ataxic
assistance for 10 days or more but not more than c. paretic
30 days d. spastic
a. slight physical injury
b. mutilation 35. He is considered as the earliest medico-legal
c. serious physical injury expert; chief physician and architect of King Zoser
d. less serious physical injury of the third dynasty in Egypt; first to record a
report of a murder trial written on clay tablet
28. It is the type of burn due to gamma rays and a. justinian
which is difficult to remedy: b. numa popmpilius
a. thermal burn c. imhotep
b. electric burn d. Hippocrates
c. chemical burn
d. radiation burn 36. If the number of gunshot wounds of entrance
and exit found in the body of the victim is even,
29. It is mostly associated with violent death due the presumption is that no bullet is lodged in the
to extreme nervous tension and injury to the body, but if the number of gunshot wounds
central nervous system; the statement is entrance and exit is odd, the presumption is that
referring to the spontaneous rigor what if all the one or more bullets might have been lodged in
muscles of the body totally stiffed due to death? the body. What principle is this?
a. cadaveric spasm a. presumption of similarity
b. cold stiffening b. odd-even rule
c. heat stiffening c. principle of infallibility
d. rigor mortis d. numbering principle

30. Instrument used in the measurement of 37. Under the management of Lt. Darby during
temperature. the American occupation in the Philippines, a
a. endometer modern and complete fingerprint file has been
b. barometer established for the Philippine commonwealth. In
c. thermometer 1937, the first Filipino fingerprint technician
d. ananometer employed by the Phil. Constabulary was
a. mr. generoso reyes
b. mr. amado delos santos

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c. mr. calixto solis b. defloration
d. none of these c. sexual abuse
d. carnal knowledge
38. Who was the first “Police Surgeon” or
Forensic pathologist, who conducted the autopsy 46. A victim of homicide was found lying on the
of the dead body Julius Caesar. In his 23 stab floor at his own apartment. On the deductive
wounds, only one is fatal. process of the investigation, the cause of the
a. Paulus Zachias victim’s death is asphyxia by applying pressure to
b. Ambroise Paire the latter’s neck while the assailant using his arms
c. Antistius was on the back of the victim. The statement best
d. Mathueu Orfila describes:
a. strangulation
39. What is the intermediate and the thickest b. burking
layer of the hair and is composed of elongated, c. throttling
spindle-shaped fibrils that cohere? They contain d. mugging
pigment granules in varying proportion
depending on the type of hair. 47. It is the art of extracting and working on
a. medulla metals by the application of chemical and physical
b. cortex knowledge.
c. core a. cryptography
d. cuticle b. metallurgy
c. casting
40. Who was the noted British Examiner of d. matalisky
questioned documents said that an intelligent
police investigator can detect almost 75% of all 48. The first medical textbook "Manual De
forgeries by careful inspection of a document with Medicina Domestica" which includes pertinent
simple magnifiers and measuring tools? instructions in the practice of forensic medicine
a. dr. arthur stoll was written by______, a chief army physician.
b. dr. aristotle curt a. Paracelsus
c. dr. william harrison b. Pedro Solis
d. dr. benjamin jones c. Enrique Delos Santos
d. Rafael Genard y Mas
41. Physical injury located at the side and also the
opposite side of the application of force. 49. Who was the first chief of the medico legal
a. extensive injury section of the division of investigation under CA
b. locus minoris resistencia 181?
c. coup contre-coup injury a. Dr. SIxto Delos Angeles
d. contre-coup injury b. Enrique Delos Santos
c. Dr. Gregorio Lantin
42. The examination conducted to the dead body d. Dr. Mariano Lara
of Luci indicates that he suffered injuries showing
that he tried to avoid or repel the potential injury 50. What is the principle which states that when
contemplated by the aggressor. Luci’s wound is a the court has once laid down a principle of law as
type of: applied to a certain state of facts, it will adhere to
a. patterned wound and apply to all future cases where the facts are
b. self-inflicted wound substantially the same?
c. defense wound a. jurisprudence
d. shielding wound b. stare decisis
c. criminalistics
43. Classification of physical injury wherein the d. forensic
victim Boss Watha is incapacitated for work or
requires medical attendance for more than thirty 51. Which of the following refers to the manner
(30) days. of walking?
a. grave physical injury a. Mannerism
b. serious physical injury b. Facies
c. less serious physical injury c. Hippocratic
d. slight physical injury d. Gait

44. The intentional act of looping or cutting any 52. What is the process of dissolution of tissues
part of the living body. by the digestive action of its enzymes and
a. mutualization bacteria that result to softening and liquefaction
b. litigation of tissues are usually accompanied by the
c. mutilation liberation of foul odor smelling gases and change
d. deformation of color of tissues?
a. putrefaction
45. The laceration or rupture of the hymen as a b. decomposition
result of sexual intercourse. c. mummification
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a. forward spatter
53. Who pioneered DNA testing? b. backspatter
a. Alec Jeffreys c. bleeding
b. William reynolds d. everted
c. Lowell C. Van Berkom
d. Henry Van Dyke 62. This test determines whether blood is a
human or non-human origin, and if non human,
54. A supercooled liquid which possess high the specific animal family from which it
viscosity and rigidity. originated.
a. dry ice a. preliminary test
b. gel b. phenolphthalein test
c. cartridge case c. Blood grouping test
d. glass d. precipitin test

55. This facies has a peculiar, deeply furrowed, 63. It is otherwise known as the (kastle-Meyer
lion like appearance of the face. This may be Test) – positive result will show pink color
observed in leprosy, elephantiasis and leontiasis (1:80,000 dilution) This is an alternative test to
ossia. benzidine test. It can detect blood in a dilution of
a. Hippocratic facies 1:80,000 parts. A positive results with this test is
b. facies leonine highly indicative of blood. The negative result is,
c. monggolian facies therefore, valuable and is conclusive as to the
d. Myxedemic facies absence of blood.
a. guiacum test
56. The following are the methods of b. luminol test
approximating the height of an individual except: c. benzidine test
a. The distance between tips of the middle finger d. phenolphthalein test
of both hands with the arms extended laterally
and it will approximately equal to the height 64. Father of Criminalistics
b. 2x the length of 1 arm + 12 inches from the a. dr. hans gross
clavicle and 1.5 inches from sternum is the height b. dr. cesare lombroso
c. Approximately 8 times the size of the head c. dr. john reid
equals the height of the person d. dr. paul kirk
d. 5x the length of the pelvic bone is the
approximate height of the person 65. Which evidence offers strongest resistance to
decomposition?
57. Under the starlight, a person can be a. semen
recognized at a distance of b. urine
a. 16-17 yards c. hair
b. 10-13 yards d. blood
c. 25 yards
d. 100 yards 66. What is the the joining or clumping of
antigen-bearing red blood cells and the
58. It has a positive result color of blue with a antibodies specific to that antigen? This serves as
(1:300,000 dilution) This is an extremely sensitive the basis for the blood grouping test.
test that can be applied to minute stain. The A. Antigen
Benzidine test never fails to detect blood even B. erythrocytes
when very old, decomposed stain with all sorts of C. agglutination
contamination is examined. D. autolysis
a. guiacum test
b. luminol test 67. A condition characterized by hardening of the
c. benzidine test muscle and coagulation of muscles and due to
d. phenolphthalein test exposure to burn and hot spot.
a. cold stiffening
59. Gunpowder tattooing is also known as… b. rigor mortis
a. soot c. heat stiffening
b. smudging d. algor mortis
c. fouling
d. stippling 68. It may be made to in order to afford the
opportunity for a postmortem examination to
60. Forward blood spatter is associated with… establish the circumstances of the death
a. entrance wound a. autopsy – aka postmortem examination
b. exit wound b. postmortem examination
c. gunshot wound c. exhumation
d. blast wave injury d. interment

61. What is the type of bloodspatter wherein the 69. A wound that is produced as a result of a
blood of the victim is ejected from the exit wound sharp-edged instrument under an eminent
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a. incised wound 78. This will always be applied to children below
b. lacerated wound the of age puberty.
c. defense wound a. physical virginity
d. justifying circumstance b. demi- virginity
c. moral virginity
70. What is the universal recipient of blood? d. virgo-intacta
A. grouping A
C. grouping O 79. These are wounds produced by a blunt
B. grouping B instrument accompanied by a sufficient force.
D. grouping AB a. hematoma
b. laceration
71. Accident classified according to severity are- c. contusion
a. death, property damage d. incision
b. fatal, non-fatal, property damage
c. physical injuries and death 80. It is a type of burn caused by the application
d. slight, less serious, serious physical injuries of heat or hot object.
a. radiation burn
72. A condition of exposure to cold temperature b. friction burn
of certain parts of the body which produces c. thermal burn
mechanical disruption of cell structure d. electrical burn
characterized by cold stiffening and diminished
body. 81. This kind of projected bloodstain pattern is
a. immersion foot usually caused by blood from an internal injury
b. trench foot mixing with air from the lungs being expelled
c. frostbite through the nose, mouth or an injury to the
d. gangrene airways or lungs. Expirated spatter tends to form
a very fine mist due to the pressure exerted by
73. A discoloration of the body after death when the lungs moving air out of the body. Small air
the blood tends to pool in the blood vessels of the bubbles in the drops of blood are typically found
most dependent portions of the body and starts in this type of spatter.
20 to 30 minutes after death and is completed by A. Expirated spatter
12 hours. C. cast-off
a. livor mortis B. Arterial Spurt
b. primary flaccidity D. gunshot spatter
c. maceration
d. rigor mortis 82. Weasley punched Malfoy on the face breaking
his nose. After this, Malfoy coughed and some
74. Who discovered the blood grouping through blood was projected to the wall. What kind of
a technique known as ablution elution technique? bloodstain pattern was created?
A. Leon lattes A. Expirated spatter
B. Karl Landsteiner C. cast-off
C. Rudolf Virchow B. Arterial Spurt
D. Victor balthazard D. gunshot spatter

75. Deals with poison, their origin, physical and 83. Which of the following personal identification
chemical properties, effects, treatment and is not easy to change?
methods of detection usually on sudden and a. hair
unexplained deaths: b. speech
a. chemistry c. dress
b. forensic chemistry d. personal paraphernalia
c. toxicology
d. poisonous investigation 84. The medical dissection and examination of a
body in order to determine the caused of death
76. The complete, continuous, persistent is?
cessation of respiration, circulation and almost all a. autopsy
brain function of an organism. b. necropsy
a. apparent death c. exhumation
b. molecular death d. saponification
c. cellular death
d. somatic death 85. This is a characteristic that shows the manner
of walking of an individual.
77. Who is the father of bloodstain patter a. mannerism
analysis? b. gait
A. Leon lattes c. complexion
B. Herbert Leonne MacDonnel d. cerebral gait
C. Rudolf Virchow
D. Victor balthazard 86. In forensic examination, a tip of the hair is
examined to determine if it was _______.

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a. bend a. inverted edge
b. folded b. bigger size
c. stretched c. protrusion of tissue
d. cut d. no definite shape

87. This refers to the spurt of blood released 96. What is the relationship between the diameter
when a major artery is severed. The blood is of the medulla and the diameter of the whole
propelled out of the breached blood vessel by the hair? Its determination is performed under a
pumping of the heart and often forms an arcing microscope with micrometer eyepiece.
pattern consisting of large, individual stains, with A. medullary index
a new pattern created for each time the heart C. medullary ratio
pumps B. medullar radius
A. Expirated spatter D. none of these
C. cast-off
B. Arterial Spurt 97. A person can hold his breath for a period not
D. gunshot spatter longer than____
A. 3 mins
88. In the crime scene several bloodstains were B. 3 ½ mins
found on the wall. The blood travelled through C. 4 mins
the air and are usually seen as spatter, but may D. 5 mins
also include gushes, splashes and arterial spurts.
What kind of bloodstain pattern is this? 98. What is the process of dissolution of tissues
A. passive by the digestive action of its enzymes and
C. projected bacteria that result to softening and liquefaction
B. transfer of tissues are usually accompanied by the
D. none of these liberation of foul odor smelling gases and change
of color of tissues?
89. A wound which if inflicted in the body so a. putrefaction
serious that it will endanger one’s life. b. decomposition
a. mortal wound c. mummification
b. trauma d. maceration
c. coup injury
d. superficial wound 99. In molecular or cellular death, death of
individual cells is within
90. A system of identification best used in case of a. 3-6 minutes
burned body. b. 3-6 hours
a. fingerprint c. 20-30 minutes
b. tissue identification d. 20-30 hours
c. odontology
d. photography 100. It is the system used in the Philippines at
present which is handled by a medico-legal officer
91. Dennis is a son of a prostitute. What kind of who is a registered physician duly qualified to
a spurious child is he? practice medicine in the Philippines.
A. Adulterous a. medical jurisprudence
C. manceres b. medico- legal system
B. sacrilegious c. medical evidence
D. incestuous d. physical evidence

92. The color of blood in postmortem lividity? QUESTIONED DOCUMENT


a. blue
b. violet 1. Is concerned with the examination of forged,
c. pink altered, or suspected papers to see if they are
d. bright red genuine, or if they have been changed in any
way…
93. What is the normal quantity of seminal fluid a. Falsification of Document
in a single ejaculated. b. Forgery
A. 1.5-3.5 cc c. Questioned Document Examination
B. 2.5-4.5 cc d. Estafa
C. 2.5- 5cc
D. 3.5- 5cc 2. May be committed in two ways: a) by giving to
a treasury or bank notes or any instrument
94. It is the major component of a glass. payable to bearer or two order, and the
a. lime appearance of a genuine document; and b) by
b. soda erasing, substituting, counterfeiting, or altering
c. silica by any means, the figures, letters, words, or signs
d. gel contained therein.
a. Falsification of Document
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c. Questioned Document Examination
d. Estafa 10. In order to sustain a charge for an offense
under Article 168 of the Revised Penal Code, the
3. May be committed by the following means: a) possession of the false treasury and bank notes
counterfeiting or imitating any handwriting, must be coupled with…
signature, or rubric; b) causing it to appear that a. the intention to keep it at home
persons have participated in any act or b. intent to surrender it to the authorities
proceeding that they in fact did not so participate c. the intention to use it
in; c) etc… nevertheless it applies to documents d. all of the above
whether private, public, official or commercial
documents. 11. Is any written statement by which a right is
a. Falsification of Document established or an obligation extinguished; it is a
b. Forgery deed, instrument or other duly authorized paper
c. Questioned document Examination by which something is proved, evidenced or set
d. Estafa forth…
a. Document
4. In addition to its use in developing secret b. Rubric
writing, iodine fumes can be used to… c. Tablet
a. determine if erasures have been made on a d. Contract
document
b. determine the kind of papers used in writing 12. A classification of falsification, that for the act
c. determine the kind of ink used in writing to be punished, it must be shown that some
d. determine the personal character of the author prejudice or damage to a third party must have
been caused or intended to be caused…
5. Handwriting samples of the same writer may a. falsification of a private document
vary somewhat according to the conditions under b. falsification of a public document
which the writing was done. In which of the c. falsification of an official document
following classes of writers are such variations in d. falsification of a commercial document
genuine writing likely to occur?
a. Men writers 13. A classification of falsification in which
b. Women writers damage is immaterial, for what is important is the
c. Practiced writers violation of the public faith, and the destruction
d. Semi-illiterate writers of the truth, and the change must affect the
integrity of the document…
6. In connection with the analysis of questioned a. falsification of a private document
documents, which of the following is least likely b. falsification of a public document
to be successful? c. falsification of an official document
a. establishment of the age of ink d. falsification of a commercial document
b. determination of make and age of typewriter
c. restitution of erased or eradicated writing 14. A kind of document which is executed by a
d. identifying the peculiarity of the individual private person without the intervention of a
notary public, or of a competent public official, by
7. In which of the following respects is forged which some disposition or agreement is proved,
handwriting most likely to differ from the genuine evidenced or set forth…
writing which the forgery attempts to imitate? a. Private document
a. Over all flow or running quality b. Public document
b. Average height and breadth of letters c. Official document
c. Starting finishing tails or extraneous flourishes d. Commercial document
d. Width of pen or pencil lines
15. A kind of document in which a public official
8. A condition of coin when it is made of metal, participated…
whether of inferior or superior intrinsic value to a. Private document
that of the genuine coin, and is given the b. Public document
appearance of one of legal tender … c. Official document
a. Mutilated coin d. Commercial document
b. Priceless coin
c. Counterfeit coin 16. A kind of document which is executed by a
d. all of the above person in authority or by private parties and
notarized by a competent public official…
9. It is the act of diminishing, by ingenious a. Private document
means, the metal in the coin; to take advantage b. Public document
if the metal abstracted; one appropriates a part c. Official document
of the metal coin, hence the coin diminishes in d. Commercial document
intrinsic value…
a. Mutilated coin 17. A kind of document which is recognized by
b. Priceless coin the Code of Commerce and other Mercantile
c. Counterfeit coin laws…
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b. Public document 25. Standards needed in the examination of
c. Official document receipt of signature
d. Commercial document a Requested signatures
b Disguised signatures
18. Is an exemplar which has been obtained from c Other receipt signatures
an official record, personal letter, or any other d Intoxicated signatures
document that is known to have been written by
the suspect, when the suspect refuses to write an 26. Writing characterized by a lack of freedom of
exemplar, when the suspect is not available, or movement, which gives the impression that every
when the investigation is conducted without the stroke was made with great difficulty.
knowledge of the suspect. a Restrained Writing
a. Collected standard document b Free-writing Movement
b. Simulated Document c Loose Writing
c. Questioned Document d Regulated Writing
d. all of the above
27. Writing characterized by too much freedom of
19.It is an instrument that can be legally used in movement and lack of regulation which are
comparison with a questioned document; its usually tall letters
origin is known and can be proven. a Loose Writing
a. Standard document b Genuine Writing
b. Simulated Document c Restrained Writing
c. Questioned Document d Regulated Writing
d. all of the above
28. Great difference in emphasis in upstrokes and
20. This group includes all papers on which it is down strokes
alleged that some changes have been made a indicates speed writing
fraudulently by erasure, addition, or substitution, b indicates good coordination
etc. c indicates slow writing
a. Handwriting specimen d indicates variations
b. Document on which the signature is
questioned 29. No difference in upstrokes and down strokes
c. Countersigned a indicates speed writing
d. Document containing alleged fraudulent b indicates good coordination
alteration c indicates slow writing
d indicates variations
21. This group of documents includes those
papers which the entire writing is in question as 30. Marked uncertainty as to location of the dots
spurious, forged, or counterfeit in its entirety fall of small letters I, J, and crosses of small letter Ts.
into. a indicates speed writing
a. Wills and Testament b indicates good coordination
b. Stroke of handwriting c indicates slow writing
c. Holographic documents d indicates variations
d. None of the above -Questioned Documents
31. Based on Supreme Court Rulings, which of
22. Fraudulent Tampering with a document often the following constitute a document?
involves two kinds of erasures, namely: a Pamphlets or books, which do not evidence any
a. Mechanical and Chemical disposition or agreement
b. Electronic and Chemical b An outline of municipal payroll
c. Electronic and Mechanical c Approximately filled out forms of official
d. all of the above documents
d All of the above
23. A kind of erasure made through the use of a
rubber eraser, sharp knife, razor blade, or picking 32. The lower part of letters such as “m”, “n”, and
instrument. “h”, which rest on the base line is known as
a. Chemical erasure a Ending
b. Electronic erasure b Hiatus
c. Mechanical erasure c Ball Gap
d. all of the above d Foot

24. May be accomplished by the insertion of a 33. The gap in continuous stroke, which may be
word, phrase, of sentence between two lines of regarded as a special form of pen lift is referred
original writing. to as
a Forgery a Pen Lift
b Substitution b Hiatus
c Intercalation c Ball Gap
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34. The rounded outside of the top of the curve 43. It is any material on which some issue has
or stroke in the small letters “n” and “m” is called been raised or is under scrutiny.
the a Document
a. Shoulder b Questioned Document
b. Arch c Disputed Document
c. Hump d Doubtful Document
d. Arc
44. It is any repeated element or detail which may
35. The widening of the ink stroked is caused by serve to individualize writing.
a. added pen pressure a Characteristic
b. hesitation b Recurring Stroke
c. stopping of the pen c Writing Habit
d. using a fountain pen d all of the above

36. Which of the following is most appropriate to 45. Which of the following refer to the irregular
describe disguised writing? thickening of ink which is found when writing
a. alteration indicates forgery slows down or stops while the writer takes stock
b. change of slant, size, style are of the position?
perceptible a Shading
c. slope b Pressure
d. deviations are made for identity concealment c Knob
d Hesitation
37. The relationship between the heights of the
small letters to the tall letters is 46. This kind of will is signed by the testator
a Slant acknowledged before the notary public with
b Position witnesses
Same
c Ratio a. Notarian
d Slope b. Holographic
c. Stenographic
38. A document is questioned primarily due to the d. notarial - as provided under Art. 806 of New
following reasons except Civil Code
a. the circumstance regarding its reproduction
arouses suspicion 47. Which of the following best describe the
b it raises skepticism importance of contemporaneous writings?
c it is objectionable to someone a. Characteristics and qualities of handwriting
d it is irrefutable gradually change over time
b. Disputes and clarify the occurrence of writing
39. It is any property or mark which is deviation
distinguishable and in document examination is c. Aids in tracing development of any writing
commonly called as the identifying details… variation.
a Writing habits d. for supplementary examination
b Individual Characteristics e. All of the above
c Characteristics
d Identifying Details 48. Taking handwriting samples in court includes
the following except:
40. It is the act of intermittently forcing the pen a. ask the person to sit as comfortably as possible
against the paper surface. b. if he has his own pen, he may use it
a. Pen pressure c. give him enough space to sit and to rest
b Pen Lift d. explain the situation and reassure him
c Pen emphasis that it is natural for anyone to be nervous
d Pen Stop in such a situation

41. It is the act of making a class and critical 49. Disguised writing can be detected because
study of any material and it is necessary to a. It shows prominent deviations
discover the facts about that material. b. Nervousness of the forger is manifested
a. Observation c. The common characteristic of the author is
b. collection conspicuous
c. Examination d. Only the appearance of the writing is changed
d. Investigation
50. It refers to the printing surface of a type block
42. It is the condensed and compact set of a. Character
authentic specimen which if adequate and proper b. Pitch
should contain a cross section of the material c. Design
from its source. d. Type face
a standards requested by the investigator
b collected standard 51. It represents the backbone or main stroke of
c examples produced by the suspect the letters.
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b Staff
c Diacritics 61. It refers to the proportion of strokes to each
d Foot other in width as affected by shading.
a. Pen pressure
52. It is the process of making out what is illegible b. Pen lift
or what has been effaced. c. Pen emphasis
a Decipherment d. Alignment
b Obliteration
c Collation 62. It is a document completely written, prepared
d Comparison and signed by the person living without
assistance of any witness, not even a lawyer.
53. It is the process of making out what is illegible a Questioned document
or what has been effaced. b Disputed document
a Decipherment c Holographic document
b Obliteration d Official document
c Collation
d Comparison 63. It is the result of a very complicated series of
acts being as a whole, a combination of a certain
54. An examination of documents wherein it is form of visible, mental, and muscular habits
viewed the source of light behind it, letting light acquired by long continued painstaking effort.
pass through the paper. a Writing
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c Oblique Light Examination Rhem Rick N. Corpuz, Ph. D Crim Questioned
d Ultraviolet Examination Document Specialist)
c Motor Coordination
55. It is the art of attempting to interpret the d Movement impulse
personality of a person from one’s handwriting.
a Questioned Document Examination 64. It is the delicate way in which various muscles
b Psychology used in writing work together to produce written
c Polygraphy forms.
d Graphology a Movement
b Handwriting
56. Signatures used to acknowledge delivery, c Motor coordination
purchase of goods and mail. d Movement impulse
a Complete
b Cursory or customary 65. It is an element of handwriting embracing
c Formal skills, space, freedom, hesitation, rhythm,
d Careless scribble emphasis, tremor, etc., and is also considered the
most important element of handwriting.
57. Signatures used to acknowledge delivery, a Spacing
purchase of goods and mail. b Line Quality
a Complete c Movement
b Cursory or customary d System
c Formal
d Careless scribble 66. It is the rounded outer side of the top of the
bend or curve on strokes in letters.
58. It refers to the smearing over a writing to a Hump
make the original undecipherable. b Arc
a Decipherment c Arch
b Interlineation d Hiatus
c Restoration
d Obliteration 67. It refers to the added element used to
complete certain letters and can either be a
59. A signature written by a forger in his own crossbar of a dot.
style of handwriting without attempting to copy a Ligature
the form of the genuine signature. b Blunt
a simple forgery c Diacritic
b traced forgery d Hump
c simulated forgery
d cut-and-paste forgery 68. It is the ruled imaginary line where the letters
rest.
60. A forehand imitation and regarded as the a Top line
most skillful type of forgery b Middle line
a Spurious forgery c Baseline
b Traced forgery d Line Quality
c Simulated forgery
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69. This provides a 3-dimensional enlargement c. Erasure
which is important when searching for identifying d. Substitution
handwriting characteristics.
a Stereoscopic microscope 78. It is the relation of the successive characters
b Infrared microscope of a word signature or line of writing to an actual
c Comparison microscope or imaginary baseline.
d Compound microscope a Rhythm
b Alignment
70. This category of forgery is basically a drawing c Line Quality
and consequently lacks free natural movement d Proportion of letters
inherent in a person’s normal writing.
a Simple 79. It is the relation of the successive characters
b Simulated of a word signature or line of writing to an actual
c Spurious or imaginary baseline.
d Traced a Rhythm
b Alignment
71. It is defined as the art of beautiful c Line Quality
handwriting. d Proportion of letters
a Calligraphy
b Stylish writing 80. This movement is produced in most part by
c Cacography action of the hand as a whole with the wrists as
d Artistic writing center of action, but with some involvement of
the fingers.
72. It is the retouching of the writing stroke as an a Finger movement
attempt to improve an imitation. b Hand movement
a Patching c Forearm movement
b Retracing d Whole Arm movement
c Shading
d Make-up 81. It refers to the more obvious increase in the
width of the strokes.
73. It is a group of muscles that push the pen up a Shading
to form the upward strokes. b Pen emphasis
a Extensors c Pen pressure
b Flexors d Rhythm
c Intensors
d Reflexors 82. It is the general term for all authenticated
writing of the suspect.
74. This group of habits is part of a basic writing a Writing habit
system, or which are modifications of the system b Standards
of writing found among a very large group of c Characteristics
writers, that they have only slight identification d Exemplars
value.
a Individual characteristics 83. It is the harmonious recurrence of stroke or
b Personal characteristics impulse and is a quality of movement that
c Class characteristics produces a natural result.
d Unknown characteristics a Alignment
b Shading
75. This type of microscope brings two separated c Quality
images into the same field of view in the eyepiece d Rhythm
so that the magnified images apparently lie side
by side. 84. It refers to a specimen of a person’s
a Comparison microscope handwriting executed in the normal course of
b Stereoscopic microscope business, personal, or social activity.
c Infrared image converter a Physical evidence
d Electron microscope b Collected Standard
c Dictated Standard
76. This type of microscope provides instant d Formal Standard
comparison of ink and has a valuable total
magnification for the detection of alteration 85. An alignment defect of typewriters which
a Comparison microscope occur when a character print above or below its
b Stereoscopic microscope proper position.
c Infrared image converter a Rebound
d Electron microscope b Horizontal
c Twisted
77. It is the act of removing certain parts to d Vertical
change the meaning of the document.
a. Intercalation 86. The properties or marks of the handwritings
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personal and is unlikely to occur in other a. rhythm
instances. b. tremor
a Collected standard c. variation
b Individual characteristics d. hiatus
c Class characteristics
d Personal characteristic 96. The condition of a typeface printing heavier
on one side or corner than the remainder of its
87. Children or illiterate forgers usually employ outline.
this group of movement. a. off-its-feet
a Hand movement b. rebound
b Forearm movement c. twisted letter
c Finger movement d. clooged
d Whole arm movement
97. The father of Questioned Document
88. The bend, curve of the inner side of the a. Albert S. Osborn
bottom loop or curve of a small letter b. Col Calvin Godard
a Hook c. William Burt
b Blunt d. John Van Dyke
c Hump
d Beard 98. No two-specimen writing prepared by anyone
are identical in every detail since this is an integral
89. Introductory up and down strokes found in part of natural writing.
some capital letters. “Double hitch” a. rhythm
a Beard b. alignment
b Buckle Knot c. normal variation
c Blunt d. normal
d Hook
99. The red and blue security fibers scattered at
90. Usually used for signing daily affair, primarily random on both surface and can be picked off by
of routine nature a pointed instrument.
a Formal a. security thread
b Informal b. security fiber
c Careless c. watermark
d Complete d. seal

91. It is the result of an attempt to transfer to a 100. It is produced when the writer concentrates
document an exact facsimile of a genuine writing on what he is writing rather than on how the pen
by tracing process. is being moved.
a simple forgery a. good line quality
b spurious forgery b. poor line quality
c simulated forgery c. line quality
d traced forgery d. quality of line

92. It is the result of an attempt to transfer to a POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY


document an exact facsimile of a genuine writing
by tracing process. 1. A photograph of the crime scene is a factual
a simple forgery reproduction and accurate record of the crime
b spurious forgery scene because it captures time, space and ___.
c simulated forgery a. person
d traced forgery b. event
c. thing
93. In this category of forgery, the forger simply d. crime scene
writes the name in question with no immaterial
attention disturbing his usual writing process. 2. In police photography it can be use as
a simple forgery demonstration enlargements, individual photos,
b traced forgery projection slides, motion pictures during
c simulated forgery a. court proceedings
d cut-and-paste forgery b. court exhibits
c. educational tour
94. Refer to the correspondence between the d. crime prevention
result obtained and the truth.
a. accuracy 3. In photography, the light writes when it strikes
b. precision minute crystals of light sensitive surfaces (films
c. scientific examination and photographic papers) thru the use of a
d. accidental mechanical device called
a. camera
95. A writing portrayed by irregular shaky strokes b. photograph device
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d. flashlight material, a dial which sets the length of time in
which the light is allowed to enter the camera?
4. ___ is a mechanical result of photography. a. shutter speed
a. camera b. focusing mechanism
b. picture c. shutter release button
c. photograph d. shutter speed dial
d. film
13. The lens is as important a part of a camera as
5. The bending of light around an object gives the body. Lenses are referred to in generic terms
rise to the phenomenon called ___. This as wide-angle, normal, and telephoto. The three
phenomenon is responsible for the partial terms refer to the focal length of the lens, which
illumination of object parts not directly in the path is customarily measured in ____
of the light. a. millimeters
a. detraction b. inches
b. retraction c. centimeters
c. diffraction d. mile per second
d. defragmentation
14. What kind of lens causes light rays to
6. What is the approximate wavelength of the converge, or come together, and is called a
primary color red? positive lens. A positive lens focuses light form a
a. 700 mu distant source into visible image that appears on
b. 450 mu then opposite side of the lens to the object.
c. 550 mu a. concave
d. 590 mu b. convex
c. reflex
7. In photography, which one is not a primary d. converge
color?
a. all of these 15. The process of changing the distance
b. cyan between the centers of the lens to the focal plane.
c. magenta It is the technique of adjusting the focal length to
d. yellow get the sharp image of the object or scene to be
photographed.
8. Refers to the taking in of light by the material. a. infinity
Following the law of conservation of energy, such b. lens change
light taken in is not lost but merely transformed c. focusing
into heat. d. shutting
a. diffraction
b. somnambulism 16. It is important to have the lens at the right
c. absorption distance from the film otherwise the image of an
d. convection object point will be seen as a circle which is
a. clear in appearance
9. Mediums that merely slow down the speed of b. blurred in appearance
light but allow to pass freely in other respects, c. no photo
transmit 90% or more of the incident light. d. all of these
a. translucent objects
b. opaque objects 17. What part of the film consists of silver
c. transparent objects compounds which are light sensitive and
d. none of these halogens?
a. top layer
10. The simplest camera is a ___, which consists b. emulsion layer
of a box with a small hole in one of its sides. c. film base
a. camera obscura d. film surface
b. fixed focus camera
c. pinhole camera 18. It is defined as the product of illumination and
d. nikkon camera time. The unit of it is usually in meter candle
second which is equivalent to exposure produced
11. What changes the size of the aperture of the by a light source of one candlepower, in the
lens and regulates the amount of light reaching second at a distance of one meter from the
the film? surface of the sensitive material.
a. diaphragm a. photographic exposure
b. shutter b. none of these
c. lens c. photographic speed
d. film d. light

12. What part of the camera controls the opening 19. These are used to control the relative tone
and closing of the shutter, regulates the quantity values in which colors are rendered by the
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particular colors or to obtain color separation 27. This is the taking a magnified (enlarged)
records for color photography works. photograph of small object by attaching an
a. viewing filter extended tube lens to the camera.
b. color filter a. photomicrography
c. filtering b. microphotography
d. none of these c. photomacrography
d. macrophotography
20. Because of the fact that all negatives do not
print best on one kind of paper, and in order to 28. Credited as the one who invent the
permit printing for special effects, photographic microphotography, but the first known sample of
papers is made in several different grades of microphotography was made by Benjamin Dancer
contrast and surface texture. What is the paper in 1838?
made by Kodak that offers six degrees of contrast a. Joseph Niepce
and glossy surface? b. George Shadbolt
a. glossy paper c. George Eastman
b. manila paper d. Maddox
c. velox paper
d. bond paper 29. He was an American entrepreneur who
founded the Kodak Company and helped to bring
21. Who was the first person to use the word the photographic use of roll film into the
Photography? mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the
a. William Heschel invention of motion picture film stock in 1888 by
b. Thomas Jefferson filmmakers.
c. John Herschel a. Joseph Niepce
d. Joseph Niepce b. George Shadbolt
c. George Eastman
22. When was the birthyear of photography? d. Maddox
a. 1877
b. 1745 30.He is best known for his invention lightweight
c. 1899 gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871,
d. 1839 which enabled photographers to use commercial
dry plates off the shelf instead of having to
23. It is an art or science which deals with the prepare their own emulsions in a mobile
reproduction of images through the action of darkroom. Also, for the first time, cameras could
light, upon sensitized materials, with the aid of a be made small enough to be hand-held.
camera and its accessories, and the chemical a. Joseph Niepce
process involved therein. b. George Shadbolt
a. photography c. George Eastman
b. police photography d. Maddox
c. forensic photography Full Name: Richard Leach Maddox
d. mugshot photography
31. It is the process of production of photographs
24. What is the study of the general practices, in which the image of an objects is reproduced
methods, and steps in taking pictures of the crime much smaller than it actually is.
scene, physical things, that can be used for law a. photomicrography
enforcement purposes. b. microphotography
a. photography c. photomacrography
b. police photography d. macrophotography
c. forensic photography
d. mugshot photography 32. What is the additional exposure on a desired
portion of the negative used for purpose of
25. What is considered as the first use of making a balance exposure?
photography in law enforcement? a. Dye toning
a. record b. Vignetting
b. preservation c. Dodging
c. questioned documents d. Burning-in
d. personal identification
33. What is the gradual fading of the image
26. Janette took a magnified photograph of small towards the side through skillful adjustment of
object through attaching a camera to the ocular dodging board?
of a compound microscope. What do you call this a. Dye toning
process? b. Vignetting
a. photomicrography c. Dodging
b. microphotography d. Burning in
c. photo macrography
d. macrophotography 34. It is the process of eliminating unwanted
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b. Vignetting and the type of developing solution that is used
c. Dodging in processing
d. Burning in a. emulsion speed
b. spectral sensitivity
35. It is the process of changing the color tone of c. film speed
photograph d. granularity
a. Dye toning
b. Vignetting 44. This kind of film is sensitive to ultra-violet
c. Dodging rays, and all light found in the visible spectrum,
d. Burning in especially to blue and violet light
a. infrared film
36. What chemicals serve as neutralizers? b. orthochromatic film
a. acetic acid ang boric acid c. monochromatic film
b. potassium bromide d. panchromatic film
c. sodium sulfate
d. sodium bicarbonate and boras powder 45. This is a special type of film that is sensitive
to infrared and ultra-violet radiation (radiation
37. This chemical is used as restrainer of beyond the human eye’s sensitive).
hardener a. infrared film
a. acetic acid ang boric acid b. orthochromatic film
b. potassium bromide c. monochromatic film
c. sodium sulfate d. panchromatic film
d. sodium bicarbonate and boras powder
46. It is a kind of film that is sensitive to UV rays,
38. Which chemical is being used as accelerator blue and green colors, but not to red.
a. acetic acid ang boric acid a. infrared film
b. potassium bromide b. orthochromatic film
c. sodium sulfate c. monochromatic film
d. sodium bicarbonate and borax powder d. panchromatic film

39. The purpose of this is to halt the developer 47. A film that is sensitive to a single color of light
action in appropriate moment. It also prevents (for white and black)
the contamination of the developer and fixer from a. infrared film
each other. b. orthochromatic film
a. fixation c. monochromatic film
b. development d. panchromatic film
c. stop bath
d. none of these 48. What is the responsiveness of the film
emulsion to the different wavelength of light
40. This makes the developed image permanent source?
when it is followed by a thorough washing. In this a. emulsion speed
process the unexposed silver halide crystals are b. spectral sensitivity
dissolved and removed from the emulsion of the c. film speed
photographic materials. d. granularity
a. fixation
b. development 49. The sensitivity of the film to light; the extent
c. stop bath to which emulsion is sensitive to light. The light
d. none of these sensitivity of the film is also known as the FILM
SPEED. Speed of the film is determined through
41. Is the process by which an invisible latent the numerical film speed labels given by the film
image in an emulsion is made visible. manufacturer.
a. fixation a. emulsion speed
b. development b. spectral sensitivity
c. stop bath c. lens speed
d. none of these d. granularity

42. What is the photographic paper used to 50. The “f” numbers represents the ratio of what
counteract the negatives in cases of characteristics of the lens and the diameter of the
overexposure or underexposure? lens aperture?
a. single weight a. depth of focus
b. double weight b. focal distance
c. velox c. focal length
d. none of these d. depth of field

43. This refers to the size of the metallic grains 51. _________ is that light sensitive silver salts in
that are formed after development of an exposed a gelatin medium coated on all photographic films
film. Generally, the size of metallic silver grains and papers.
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b. emulsion 61. What is film with the longest range of
c. sympathetic ink sensitivity in the electromagnetic spectrum
d. copy pencil called?
a. panchromatic film
52. How many degrees must you add to the DIN b. blue sensitive film
rating to denote double emulsion speed? c. infra-red film
a. 3 d. orthochromatic film
b. 5
c. 2 62. Why must the taking of photographs from an
d. 4 unusual camera position in crime photography be
avoided?
53. What contraption device is used to block the a. it distorts the focus
path of light passing through the lens exposing b. it distorts the magnification
the sensitized material? c. it distorts the perspective
a. range finder d. it distorts texture
b. exposure
c. shutter 63. In photographing a crime scene, what view
d. view finder will best feature the nature of the crime scene?
a. Medium
54. What is the correct sequence of sensitivity of b. close- up
the three emulsion layers of color film? c. general
a. red- green- blue d. extreme close- up
b. blue- green- red
c. green- red- blue 64. What problem is usually encountered by a
d. blue- red- green photographer when using a flash unit?
a. synchronization
55. Which indicates the speed of the lens or the b. parallax
amount of light the lens lets through in proportion c. neutral density
to its focal length? d. multiple image
a. flash meters
b. f 65. In stake out surveillance photography, where
c. exposure the photographer cannot get close to the subject,
d. electronic flash what kind of lens must be used?
a. Normal
56. What kind of light makes secret inks visible? b. wide- angle
a. side c. telephoto
b. ultra- violet d. zoom
c. transparent
d. opaque 66. The scattering of light rays after passing
through a small aperture is called:
57. The combination of blue and green light will a. Reflection
produce what color? b. diffraction
a. black c. absorption
b. magenta d. transmission
c. cyan
d. yellow 67. Who invented the instant photographic
process commonly known as Polaroid?
58. What holds the photographic papers flat a. George Eastman
during exposure in the enlarging process? b. Edwin Herbert Land
a. billows c. John Herschel
b. easel d. William Talbot
c. head assembly
d. base board 68. The determining factor of how wide the area
of coverage of a lens is as well as the size of the
59. LASER is also referred to as image that it will produce is:
a. ultra- violet light a. depth of field
b. coherent light b. lens opening
c. infra- red light c. focal length
d. visible light d. hyperfocal distance

60. What is the function of the boric acid and 69. The one who coined the word “photography”
acetic acid in the fixer? is:
a. as preservative a. Joseph Niepce
b. as neutralizer b. Louis Jacques
c. as accelerant c. John Herschel
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70. Generally, the one that actually forms the 78. In the examination of fibers, hairs or
image in photography are those lights that are sometimes bullet or shells, there is a need to use
being _______. a microscope. The process of taking pictures
a. Reflected through microscope is:
b. transmitted a. photomicrography
c. absorbed b. photomicrography
d. dispersed by subject c. microphotography
d. thermograph
71. The main difference between taking an
ordinary photograph to that of infra- red 79. What filter is used in photographing latent
photography lies in the three (3) F’s namely, film, fingerprints on a shinny or highly polished surface
filter and ______. because it reduce or eliminate glare or
a. Focal reflections?
b. focusing a. correction filter
c. framing b. polarizing filter
d. field of view c. contrast filter
d. neutral density filter
72. The main reason for a long and complete
washing of a processed film or photographic 80. The emulsion speed rating of a film that is
paper in running water is to remove the presence both expressed in arithmetical and logarithmic
of: value.
a. Acid a. ASA rating
b. hypo b. ISO rating
c. alum c. DIN rating
d. nitrate d. BSI rating

73. It is the distance at which a lens of a camera 81. What lighting condition in sunlight wherein
is focused with a given particular diaphragm objects in open space cast a transparent shadow?
opening which will give the maximum depth of a. bright sunlight
field. b. cloudy dull sunlight
a. hyperfocal distance c. hazy sunlight
b. subject distance d. cloudy bright sunlight
c. focal distance
d. focal length 82. Ultraviolet photography has many uses in
crime investigation. What type of film can be used
74. It is one of the three (3) secondary colors of for ultra- violet photography?
light. a. film
a. Blue b. panchromatic film
b. red Primary Colors c. all of these
c. green d. infra- red film
d. yellow
83. Depth of field or the range of sharpness in
75. The focusing method wherein the distance front of and behind the subject on which focus
form the lens of the camera to the subject is has been set is controlled by the lens or
measured, estimated or calculated, then said diaphragm opening. To get a wider depth of field
distance is set on the lens mount. use a:
a. scale- bed a. smaller lens opening
b. co- incident image b. wider lens opening
c. split image c. medium lens opening
d. ground glass d. none of these

76. Generally, a lens have only one focal length, 84. The lens opening also known as the relative
however, there is a lens with variable focal length aperture is the indicator for light transmitting
and it is known as: capability of the lens. Which lens opening will
a. wide angle lens admit lighter to pass through its medium?
b. telephoto lens a. f 2.8
c. normal lens b. f 4
d. zoom lens c. f 5.6
d. f 16
77. The film that has the widest range of spectral
sensitivity to the different energies of the 85. Photographs they “do not lie”. However,
electromagnetic spectrum. photographs sometimes mislead like in reversed
a. blue sensitive photographs. In traffic accident investigation, a
b. panchromatic skid mark curving to the right will be shown in
c. orthochromatic photograph to be curving to the left instead. This
d. infra-red misleading photograph is brought about by the
wrong placement of _____________.
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b. photographic paper in the developer a. Emulsion
c. negative in the enlarger b. gray
d. photographic paper in the fixer c. base
d. gelatin
86. A camera lens that is capable of taking
photographs of extreme close- up without the 94. An ideal camera type for police photography
need of close- up attachment is called: due to its versatility, compactness,
a. wide angle lens interchangeability of lenses and therefore an all
b. macro lens purpose camera is:
c. zoom lens a. range finder
d. telephoto lens b. press type
c. single lens reflex
87. Which of the following photographic rays will d. box type
correspond to the wave length of 400- 700
nanometers? 95. One of the advancements of photography
a. x- ray nowadays is the use of LASER. With the use of
b. visible light this one will be able to produce a three
c. ultra- violet rays dimensional photograph called:
d. infra- red rays a. photogram
b. monogram
88. For proper flash synchronization for an c. hologram
electronic flash unit, the flash cord should be d. ektogram
plugged into the socket in the camera marked as
what? 96. Otherwise known as superimposed image
a. X focusing. In this type of focusing a single object
b. M will appear double once the object is not in focus,
c. FP but moving the focusing adjustment this double
d. none of these image will coincide or superimposed to form a
single object.
89. The type of photographic paper used in a. Split Image
enlarging or projecting printing is the ________. b. Ground Glass
a. chloride paper c. Scale Bed
b. iodide paper d. Coincidence
c. bromide paper
d. nitrate 97. What type of lens that the object appearing is
bigger than the original size during actual
90. It is the device used in film developing photographing for self-enlargement of the object
wherein the film is winded along its spiral groove being photographed.
so that no surface of the film of the will touch a. Wide angle lens
each other thus, assuring even development is b. macro lens
called? c. zoom lens
a. film reloader d. special purpose lens
b. film cartridge
c. developing reel 98. It is a type of film in photography used to
d. developing tank discover obliterated object.
a. Monochromatic film
91. Fixation is the stage in chemical processing b. panchromatic film
where the image in the film or the paper is made c. orthochromatic film
permanent. This is achieved by dissolving all the d. infrared film
unexposed and undeveloped _______.
a. metallic 99. Those that allow light to pass through but
b. mineral acids diffuse the flow of light so that objects on the
c. silver halides other side cannot be distinctly seen are called
d. potassium alum a. Translucent
b. Transparent
92. A photographic filter prevents some portion c. Reflection
of the exposing energy from reaching the film d. Refraction
thereby necessitating an increase of exposure to
obtain proper results. The amount of increase 100. Which of the following photographic rays will
required is indicated by a number called. correspond to the wave length of 400- 700
a. guide number nanometers?
b. f number a. x- ray
c. filter factor b. visible light
d. shutter speed c. ultra- violet rays
d. infra- red rays
93. In the negative, one side is shinny while the
other side is dull. What do you call to the dull side POLYGRAPHY
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1. Its primary purpose of the ____ is to prepare a. Angelo Mosso
or condition the subject for the test. b. Daniel Defoe
a. Pre test c. Cesare Lombroso
b. Initial interview d. Francis Galton
c. Instrumental test
d. Preliminary preparations 9. Introduced the Word Association Test using
series of irrelevant questions and relevant
2. It concern some secondary element of the question separated in time
crime or problem and deals with mostly in guilty a. Angelo Mosso
knowledge and partial involvement. b. Daniel Defoe
a. Weak Relevant Question c. Cesare Lombroso
b. Evidence Connecting Question d. Francis Galton
c. Knowledge Question
d. Strong Relevant Question 10. Also called Neutral Question
a. Symptomatic Question
3. The subject may be given this test if he is not b. Sacrifice Relevant Question
yet informed of the details of the offense for c. Irrelevant Question
which he is being interrogated by the d. Relevant Question
investigation, or by other persons or from other
sources like the print media. This valid test is only 11. General Question Test consists of series of
made possibly when there is no widespread relevant, irrelevant control questions in a planned
publicity about a crime where intimate details as order. Developed by
to the methods of commission or certain facts of a. John E. Reid
the case is known from the victim and b. Cleve back Ster
investigator. c. Angelo Mosso
a. Guilt complex test d. Daniel Defoe
b. Control question
c. Peak of tension test 12. 1923 in USA case that polygraph was NOT
d. Psychological stress evaluator ADMITTED AS EVIDENCE
a. States vs Frye
4. How would you consider the First markings of b. State vs corners
the examiner on the chart? c. State vs garrofalo
a. X d. State vs Jennings
b. XX
c. X / 60 / 1.5 A 13. Constructed a more satisfactory instrument
d. XX / 60 / 1.5 A than the one used by Larson. In the year 1926
the polygraph included in addition to units for
5. Lists of stimulus and non-stimulus word are recording blood pressure, pulse, and galvanic skin
read to the subject who is instructed to answer reflex
as quickly as possible. The answers to the a. Leonarde Keeler
question may be “yes” or “no”. Unlike the lie b. Reid
detector, the time interval between the words c. William Moulton Marston
uttered by the examiner and the answer to the d. John A. Larson
question is recorded
a. Guilt Complex Test 14. Constructed the instrument capable of
b. Word Association Test continuously recording all the phenomena such
c. Use of padding question as blood pressure, pulse and respiration. In the
d. Administration of Truth Serum year 1921. He also was the first to use more than
one recording to detect deception
6. What do you call the alteration of a. Leonarde Keeler
consciousness and concentration in which the b. Reid
subject manifests a heightened of suggestibility c. William Moulton Marston
while awareness is maintained? d. John A. Larson
a. Hypnotism
b. Narcoanalysis 15. In the year 1945 he introduced a completely
c. Intoxication With Alcohol revised polygraph technique, the most significant
d. Use of Truth Serum feature of which was the utilization of a control
question
7. Considered as an earliest known reference to a a. Leonarde Keeler
method of detecting deception b. Reid
a. Ayur Vida c. William Moulton Marston
b. Ordeal d. John A. Larson
c. Hammurabi Code
d. None of the above 16. Used SPHYGMOMANOMETER attach to blood
pressure. He recorded the respiration noted
8. He is considered as the first person to conceive through the time when the subject’s response
the idea of lie detection and the first to apply the verbally. He used also GALVANOMETER to record
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the skin resistance changes and a gripping device 24. He became the first person to use science as
to record tension a method of detecting deception.
a. Leonarde Keeler a. Cesare Lombroso
b. Reid b. Daniel DeFoe
c. William Moulton Marston c. Cesare Beccaria
d. John A. Larson d. William Marston

17. Conducted by an investigator handling the 25. The Father of Modern Criminology Cesare
case, designed for the obtaining of pertinent Lombroso, became the first person to use science
information necessary for the conduct of the test as a method of detecting deception in the year
a. Post Interview/Interrogation a. 1895
b. The Pre-test interview b. 1925
c. The conduct of instrumental test c. 1896
d. Initial Interview d. 1926

18. This was first devised by F. Galton in 1870 26. He developed a method of measuring the
and later was modified and improved by others amount of sweat a suspect produced during
such as Munsterberg, Orosland, Luria and Jung. interrogation. This was determined by the
In the Galton’s technique there are two main electrical conductibility of the suspect’s skin.
criteria for detecting indications of deception and a. Sticker
these are: (1) Incriminating answer words, and b. Lombroso
(2) Delayed answer c. Sticker
a. Word Association Test d. Beccaria
b. Evidence Connecting
c. Control Questions 27. The first “polygraph” machine was actually a
d. Peak of Tension test copy machine invented in
a. 1801
19. When should the examiner perform chart b. 1803
probing? c. 1802
a. After the polygraph test d. 1804
b. Anytime the examines decides
c. During the entire polygraph examination 28. In the early 1900s, He invented what he
d. At the end of each particular polygraph called the “ink polygraph”. This was used to
test monitor cardiovascular responses by measuring
pulse and blood pressure.
20. A portion of rice spit from a person’s mouth a. Ken Adler
revealed whether he or she was lying. Spitting out b. Vittorio Benussi
dry rice indicated the dry mouth of a liar. This c. James MacKenzie
form of lie detection originated in d. Cesare Lombroso
a. India
b. China 29. In 1914, He used pneumatic tubing to study
c. England an individual’s breathing rates. The device
d. Africa wrapped around the person’s chest and
measured depth and rate of breath.
21. During the Middle Ages, torture was used as a. Vittorio Benussi
a means of forcing a person to tell the truth. This b. Ken Adler
was prevalent in what continent? c. James MacKenzie
a. Asia d. Cesare Lombroso
b. Africa
c. South America 30. The First Polygraph school.
d. Europe a. Keeler Institute
b. Scherers Institute
22. In the early 1700s, He was the first to move c. Marston Institute
away from torture by suggesting that deception d. Larsons Institute
could be evaluated by monitoring the heart rate.
a. Ceasar Lombroso 31. The First Full Time professional polygraph
b. Daniel DeFoe examiner.
c. William Marston a. Leonarde Keeler
d. Ken Adler b. William Marston
c. John Larson
23. In 1764, He wrote of torture, “By this method, d. Ron Decker
the robust will escape, and the feeble be
condemned. 32. It measures systolic blood pressure as a
a. Cesare Lombroso means of determining whether a suspect was
b. Daniel DeFoe lying during an interrogation.
c. Cesare Beccaria a. Sphygmomanometer
d. William Marston b. Emotograph
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d. Psychogalvanometer b. Cesare Becarria
c. Cesare Lombroso
33. A U.S case wherein the examiners testimony d. Dr. William Marston
regarding a defendants fact of passing the
polygraph test was not accepted in evidence. 42. This water pressure apparatus is known today
a. U.S vs. Ohio as
b. Keeler vs. U.S a. Cardiograph
c. Frye vs. U.S b. Cardiosphygmograph
d. Larson vs. U.S c. Pneumograph
d. Hydrosphygmograph
34. He invented the modern polygraph machine
in 1921. 43. He established in 1915 the relevance of blood
a. Leonarde Keeler pressure changes in the systolic blood pressure.
b. William Marston a. Mosso
c. John Larson b. Cesare Becarria
d. Ron Decker c. Cesare Lombroso
d. Dr. William Marston
35. Polygraph literally means
a. Many Writings 44. He developed the first instrument to record
b. Different Writings simultaneously a person's blood pressure, pulse
c. Various Writings rate and respiration changes.
d. Cursive Writings a. Mosso
b. Cesare Lombroso
36. Cesare Lombroso was the first to experiment c. Dr. John Larson
with a device measuring blood pressure and pulse d. Dr. William Marston
to detect deception in criminal suspects, He called
it 45. He found out in 1914, that distinct changes
a. Sphygmograph occur in the respiratory patterns during attempt
b. Hydrosphygmograph to deceive.
c. Cardiograph a. John Larson
d. Pneumograph b. Cesare Lombroso
c. Vittorio Benussi
37. The First Polygraph machine suitable for use d. Dr. William Marston
in criminal investigation was invented by
a. Cesare Lombroso 46. He conducted experiments in lie detection by
b. Leonarde Keeler measuring and recording the rate and depth of
c. Vittorio Venussi the subject's respiration.
d. John Larson a. John Larson
b. Cesare Lombroso
38. An instrument for recording variations in c. Vittorio Benussi
pressure, e.g., in sound waves or in blood within d. Dr. William Marston
blood vessels, by the trace of a stylus on a
rotating cylinder. 47. An Italian physiologist accidentally discovered
a. Kymograph that a dissected frog leg would twitch and
b. Pheumograph contract spasmodically at the touch of a scalpel
c. Galvanograph charged with electricity.
d. Cardiograph a. Mosso
b. Luigi Galvani
39.An Italian scientist who in 1895, theorized that c. Vittorio Benussi
when in emotional stress or tension, blood would d. Dr. William Marston
rush to the head.
a. Mosso 48. He had found that current or "galvanic
b. Cesare Becarria Electricity" flowed through animal tissue.
c. Cesare Lombroso a. Mosso
b. Luigi Galvani
40. He built a delicately balanced board with a c. Vittorio Benussi
center fulcrum. A person lying on this board was d. John Larson
placed under stress and blood would rush to his
head causing the board to tilt down at the head. 49. This is a force or motion reaching the
a. Mosso organism and excites the receptors
b. Cesare Becarria a. Stimulus
c. Cesare Lombroso b. Reaction
d. Dr. William Marston c. Response
d. fear
41. In 1895, he used measurements of blood
pressure changes during interrogations using a 50. What is the act of uttering or conveying of
water pressure apparatus falsehood or creating a false or misleading
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information with the intention of affecting b. Sticker
wrongfully the acts and opinion of other? c. Veraguth
a. Deception d. Ruckmick
b. Lying
c. Specific response 59. The term psychogalavanic reflex used by
d. Normal tracing veraguth was repudiated by him and proposed
the term “electrodermal response”
51. This is any deviation from the normal tracing a. Harold Burtt
of the subject. b. Sticker
a. Deception c. Veraguth
b. Lying d. Ruckmick
c. Specific response
d. Normal tracing 60. He introduced the method of detecting
deception from the galvanic impression on the
52. It is an act of deceiving or misleading usually chart tracing.
accompanied by lying. a. Harold Burtt
a. Deception b. Sticker
b. Lying c. Veraguth
c. Specific response d. Ruckmick
d. Normal tracing
61. He used the word PSYCHOGALVANIC reflex.
53. What is a tracing on the chart wherein the He believed that electrical phenomena are due to
subject answered in the irrelevant question? the activity of sweat glands, and such activity is
a. Deception known as “psychogalvanic
b. Lying a. Harold Burtt
c. Specific response b. Sticker
d. Normal tracing c. Veraguth
d. Ruckmick
54. This ordeal is done to a man accused of
sorcery was to be submerged in a stream. 62. He develop the silent answer test and guilt
a. Ordeal of cold water complex test to be administered to overly
b. Ordeal of hot water responsive examinee?
c. Rice chewing ordeal a. Mosso
d. Red hot iron ordeal b. Reid
c. Backster
55. (judicium aquae ferventis), also known as the d. Mackenzie
“cauldron ordeal,”a large kettle of water would be
heated to the boiling point and a ring or jewel 63. He developed a Polygraph Instrument which
placed at the bottom. ... This form of ordeal was contains a stimulus marker. This instrument is
meant to ascertain the guilt or innocence of a capable of recording the beginning and ending of
person accused of murder question and the moment the examinee
a. Ordeal of cold water answered.
b. Ordeal of hot water a. Richard Arther
c. Rice chewing ordeal b. Cleve Backster
d. Red hot iron ordeal c. John Reid
d. Leonard Keeler
56. What is the other term for polygraph
examination? 64. Developed Control Question which consist of
a. Psychophysiological detection of a known lie and incorporated it into the
deception relevant/irrelevant technique and also the “Silent
b. Lie detector test answer test and guilt-complex
c. Narcoanalysis a. Richard Arther
d. None of these b. Cleve Backster
c. John Reid
57. He was a Greek anatomist and Royal d. Leonard Keeler
physician known for the detection of detection by
feeling the pulse. (Quickening of the pulse) 65. This premise states that specific nervous
a. Erasistratus system component whose stimulation can thus be
b. Galileo Galilei diagnosed are so stimulated by the involuntary
c. Hippocrates and emotional processes of the individual who is
d. None of the above continuously attempting concealment of
deception.
58. Determined that respiratory changes were a. Psychological leg basic premise
indicative of deception and found out that b. Physiological leg basic premise
changes in systolic blood pressure were of c. Mechanical leg basic premise
greater value in detecting deception than d. None of these
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66. This premise states that the polygraph is an increase in heart rate and a rise in blood
capable of making graphic record containing pressure
reliable information regarding physiological a. Epinephrine
responses of the subject b. Norepinephrine
a. Psychological leg basic premise c. Oxytocin
b. Physiological leg basic premise d. endorphine
c. Mechanical leg basic premise
d. None of these 74. This chemical is released by the brain to
restore things to normal when the conditions of
67. This states that among the physiological stress have been removed.
responses that may be recorded are those that a. Epinephrine
automatically occur only following the stimulation b. Norepinephrine
of specific nervous component system c. Oxytocin
a. Psychological leg basic premise d. endorphine
b. Physiological leg basic premise
c. Mechanical leg basic premise 75. This machine records the tiny voice
d. None of these modulations of the subject which is inaudible to
the normal hearer.
68. This is a person who cannot distinguish a. Eye tracker
between right and wrong. also known as b. Nystagmys
mythomania and pseudologia fantastica, is the c. Spectrography
chronic behavior of compulsive or habitual lying. d. Psychological stress evaluator
Unlike telling the occasional white lie to avoid
hurting someone's feelings or getting in trouble, 76. In this test, HYOSCINE HYDROBROMIDE is
a pathological liar seems to lie for no apparent given hypodermically in repeated doses until a
reason state of delirium is induced
a. Pathological liar a. Truth serum
b. Black liar b. Narcoanalysis/narco synthesis
c. Ethnological liar c. Intoxication
d. Occupational liar d. hypnosis

69. This kind of lie would normally cause discord 77. Psychiatric sodium amytal or sodium
if uncovered but offers some benefit to the liar penthotal is administered to the subject. When
and assists in an orderly society therefore the effects appear , questioning starts It is
potentially beneficial to others claimed that the drug causes depression of the
a. White lie inhibitory mechanism of the brain and the
b. Puffery lie subjects talk freely.
c. Noble lie a. Truth serum - Sodium Pentothal
d. None of these b. Narcoanalysis/narco synthesis
c. Intoxication
70. This lie is an exaggerated claim typically d. hypnosis
found in advertising and publicity announcements
a. White lie 78. How many recording pens in a
b. Puffery lie cardiosphygmograph?
c. Noble lie a. 1
d. None of these b. 2
c. 3
71. This is a lie that would cause only relatively d. 4
minor discord if it were uncovered and typically
offers some benefit to the hearer 79. What is the size of the recording pen of a
a. White lie cardiosphygmograph?
b. Puffery lie a. 5
c. Noble lie b. 6
d. None of these c. 7
d. 8
72. The _______ nervous system works to
restore things to normal when the conditions of 80. This section records the amount of
stress have been removed. It is the dominant perspiration produced
branch when the condition is normal and the a. Keymograph
subject is calm, contented and relaxed b. Cardiosphymograph
a. Sympathetic c. Pneumography
b. Parasymphatetic d. galvanograph
c. Central
d. autonomic 81. This component is a motor that pulls or drives
the chart paper under the recording pen
73. What chemical is released by the brain during simultaneously at the rate of 6 or 12 inches per
situations of stress, shock and fear that will excite minute.
most of his physiological responses and will give a. Keymograph

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b. Cardiosphymograph c. Guilty knowledge test
c. Pneumography d. Guilt Complex Test
d. galvanograph
90. This test compares physiological responses to
82. What is the duration of the pre-test interview? multiple-choice type questions about the crime,
a. 12-30 minutes one choice of which contains information only the
b. 10-30 minutes crime investigators and the criminal would know
c. 20-30 minutes about.
d. 10-20 minutes a. Control question test
b. Directed lie test
83. Which of the following is the purpose of the c. Guilty knowledge test
pre-test interview? d. Guilt Complex Test
a. To determine whether the subject has any
medical or psychiatric condition or has used drugs 91. In cases where the subject is overly
that will prevent the testing. responsive, this test is given which consists of a
b. To explain to the subject the purpose of the test pertaining to a purely fictitious incident of a
examination. similar nature to the one under query. It is
c. to prepare or condition the subject for the designed to compare the responsiveness on it
actual test with those that appeared on the actual test record
d. all of the above wherein questions are those which pertains to
that which is under investigation. This test is
84. These are questions which have no bearing designed for diagnostic purpose to aid in the post
to the case under investigation examination interrogation of a lying subject.
a. Relevant questions a. Control question test
b. Irrelevant questions b. Directed lie test
c. Control questions c. Guilty knowledge test
d. Weak relevant questions d. Guilt Complex Test

85. These are questions pertaining to the issue 92. This test tries to detect lying by comparing
under investigation. They must be unambiguous, physiological responses when the subject is told
unequivocal and understandable to the subject to deliberately lie to responses when they tell the
a. Relevant questions truth
b. Irrelevant questions a. Control question test
c. Control questions b. Directed lie test
d. Weak relevant questions c. Guilty knowledge test
d. Guilt Complex Test
86. These are questions which are unrelated to
the matter under investigation but are of similar 93. How many cards are used in a card test?
nature although less serious as compared to a. 4
those relevant questions under investigation. b. 5
a. Relevant questions c. 6
b. Irrelevant questions d. 7
c. Control questions
d. Weak relevant questions 94. He introduced the symptomatic question or
myth to disclose whether or not an outside issue
87. This test consists of a series of relevant and is bothering the subject.
irrelevant questioned asked in a planned order a. Arther
a. General question test b. Leonard Keeler
b. Peak of tension test c. John Reid
c. Guilt complex test d. Cleve Backster
d. None of these
95. Manufactured the first commercial polygraph
88. Who determines the guilt of the subject in a instrument for Leonard Keeler.
polygraph examination? a. Associated Press Inc.
a. Judge b. Associated Research Inc.
b. Polygraph examiner c. Associated manufacturing Inc.
c. Investigator d. . Associated Detection Inc.
d. Expert witness
96. The name of the first manufactured polygraph
89. This test compares the physiological response instrument.
to relevant questions about the crime with the a. Keeler polygraph instrument
response to questions relating to possible prior b. Associated Detecting instrument
misdeeds. "This test is often used to determine c. Larson polygraph instrument
whether certain criminal suspects should be d. Marston polygraph instrument
prosecuted or classified as uninvolved in the
crime" (American Psychological Association). 97. If a subject looked down and moved his toe
a. Control question test in a circular motion while being interrogated, he
b. Directed lie test

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was taugh to be deceptive. This ancient
deception detection is known as
a. Nervous behaviorism
b. The ordeal of the sacred donkey
c. The ordeal of rice
d. The sacred ass

98. If the suspect's tongue was not burned, he


was judged innocent. If the suspect's tongue was
burned, he was judged guilty. This ancient
deception detection is known as
a. The hot iron test
b. Bear the hot iron test
c. The ordeal of the hot iron
d. The ember test

99. What company is the leader in the


manufacture of polygraph?
a. Lafayette instrument company
b. Axciton
c. Stoelting
d. Limestone

100. Where is the largest polygraph market in the


world?
a. Russia
b. Ukraine
c. U.S.A
d. Georgia

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