Christ The King College

9014, Gingoog City

College of Criminology Program

Mock Board Examination

Criminalistics
Set-B

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This test booklet contains 100 test questions
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INSTRUCTIONS:
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MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. The following are signs of death EXCEPT:

a. Cooling of the body c. Cessation of respiration
b. Heating of the body d. Cessation of heart function & circulation

2. What is known as the reproduction of an impression made on soft surface by utilizing casting
materials?
a. Moulage c. Metallic aides
b. Dry fusion d. Plaster of paris

3. Molecular death is a kind of death where:

a. It occurs immediately after death
b. It is usually pronounced by the physician
c. There is a transient loss of vital functions of the body
d. There is loss of life of the individual cells of the body

4. The following judicial executions were exercised in the Philippines except:

a. Musketry c. Electrocution
b. Lethal injection d. Judicial hanging

5. The sum total of all reaction of tissues or organs for which the activities of the living cells are
necessary:
a. Inflammation c. Physical reaction
b. Vital reaction d. Chemical reaction

6. If post-mortem rigidly would suggest approximate time of death, Cadaveric spasm will
suggest______
a. Age of the victim c. Duration of death
b. Cause of death d. None of the above

7. The word forensic as used in conjunction with the word ballistic means?
a. Market place c. Public discussion
b. Legal d. Forum

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 8. It refers to the motion of the projectile once it enters a rifled barrel of the gun:
a. Twist c. Rotatory
b. Direct d. Translational

9. It is the stillness or steadiness of the bullet in its flight until it finally reaches the target?
a. Ricochet c. Gyroscopic action
b. Rifling d. Trajectory

10. The branches of ballistics which treats of the effect of the projectile on impact on the target?
a. Terminal ballistic c. Forensic ballistic
b. internal ballistic d. External ballistic

11. A type of weapon in which the mechanism is so arranged that it can fired continuously will
trigger is press?
a. Single shots c. Breech action weapon
b. Automatic weapon d. repeating arms

12. A type of shotgun based on interior barrel construction which has a reducing bore diameter to
limit the spread of pallets called:
a. Smooth bore c. Choke type
b. Paradox d. Cylinder type

13. In the United States, crimes are committed by juvenile using a homemade firearm known as:
a. Flare gun. c. Matchlock
b. Zip gun d. Freakish gun

14. The mechanism of firearm which withdraws the empty shells from the chamber?
a. Firing pin c. Extractor pin
b. Extractor d. Ejector

15. What is the final step in making a photograph in which the image on the negative is transferred
to the photographic paper by the action of light with the aid of the printer?
a. Printmaking c. Chemical processing
b. Fixing d. Stop bathing

16. What type of photographic paper is used In enlarging or projecting printing?

a. Oxide c. Bromide
b. Nitride d. Chloride

17. Who invented the Zoopraxiscope to project continuous movement from photographic images?
a. Petzval c. Muybsidge
b. Maxwell d. Daguerre

18. It is considered as the most popular photo shop in the history of photography:
a. Kodak c. Daguerreotype
b. Polaroid d. Fuji

19. Who advocated the wave theory of light?

a. Newton c. Maxwell
b. Aristotle d. Einstein

20. What is the source of all colors in the visible spectrum?

a. Ultraviolet c. Golden yellow
b. White d. Infrared

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 21. What kind of ridge formation that curves back in the direction from which is started?
a. Looping c. Bifurcation
b. Converging d. Eyelet

22. Which of the following refers to a ridge which looks like a period, dot or a fragment?
a. Island c. Enclosure
b. Rod d. Lake

23. One of the cardinal rule in taking fingerprints of the subject is that fingers must be:
a. Oily c.Moisen
b. Healthy d. Dry

24. What is the tiny elevation or hill like structure found on the epidermis layer of the skin
containing sweat pores?
a. Ridge c. Dermal papillae
b. Friction skin d. Furrows

25. Who was the first American Instructress of Dactyloscopy?

a. Clara del Valle c. Bernadette Fuentabella
b. Asa Darby d. Mary Holland

26. Who topped the first government examination in fingerprints given in 1937?
a. Thomas Dugan c. John Ferrier
b. Agustin Patricio d. Flaviano Guerrero

27. In China, fingerprint is called:

a. Wung Shu c. Ching Hua
b. Tsek Chat d. Hua Chi

28. Who devised a system of classifying and filling of fingerprint cards and was used in most
Spanish and Latin countries?
a. Juan Vucetich c. Edward Henry
b. Francis Galton d. Marcelo Maiphigi

29. Who are considered as the first users of fingerprints as part of their rituals?
a. Chinese c. Romans
b. British d. Americans

30. What is the first US leading case conviction which was based on fingerprints decided last
December21, 1911?
a. People vs. Parke c. People vs. Medina
b. People vs. Clements d. People vs. Jennings

31. Who is considered as the father of modern ballistics?

a. John Browning c. Horace Smith
b. Daniel Wesson d. Calvin Goddard

32. It is tubular metallic or non-metallic container which holds together the bullet, gunpowder and
primer called:
a. Breech case c. Cartridge case
b. Bolt case d. Ammo case

33. What branch of ballistic focuses on the effects of the impact of the projectile on the target?
a. Terminal c. exterior
b. Interior d. Forensic

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 34. It is a discipline of forensic science which has, as its primary concern to determine if a tool
mark was produced by a particular toot.
a. Personal Identification c. Tool mark identification
b. Firearm identification d. Cartridge identification

35. This valuable instrument is specially designed to permit the firearms examiner to determine the
similarity and dissimilarity between fired bullets or to fire cartridge cases by simultaneously
observing their magnified image.
a. Telescope c. Stereoscope
b. Onoscope d. Microscope

36. What is regarded as the world’s first self-loading rifle?

a. Garand c. Machine gun
b. Carbine d. Armailte

37. Those types of bullet which contain highly charged explosive.

a. Tracer c. Fragmentary
b. Armor piercing d Explosive

38. What branch of ballistic deals with the attributes and movements of the bullets after it has left
the gun muzzle?
a. Interior c. Terminal
b. Exterior d. Forensic

39. What type of firearm does not contain rifling from end to end?
a. Scuff bore c Smooth bore
b. Rough bore d. Rifled bore

40. Type of primer consisting of two flash hole or vent

a. Boxer c. Battery
b. Berdan d. none of the above

41. The identification of two impressions can be established primarily through:

a. Formation of the two terminus
b. Unexplained similarity of ridges
c. Formation of different types of pattern
d. Similarity of ridge characteristics in their relative positions

42. Considered to be the Father of Poroscopy. Known for his principle In every crime scene there
leaves traces, traces that would lead to the identity of its author.
a. Edmond Locard c. Francis Gatton
b. John Herschel d. Marcelo Malpighe

43. Is the outer layer of the epidermis layer which covers the skin?
a. Stratum Sangurn c. Stratum Corneum
b. Epidermis d. Stratum Musocum

44. The person who attempt to destroy his fingerprint through surgery. Also known as the man
without fingerprint?
a. Roscoe Pitts c. John Dillenger
b. John Augustus d. Robert James Pitts

45. What pattern type has the ridges that enter on one side of the pattern and flow to the other
side with a rise in the center?
a. Plain arc c. Tented arc
b. Loop d. Exceptional arc
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 46. Which of the following are the basic ridge characteristics?
a. Short ridge, ending ridge, ridge dot
b. Ridge dot, short ridge and bifurcation
c. Island ridge, bifurcation and short ridge
d. Ridge dot, ending ridge and bifurcation

47. How many standard fingerprints pattern are there? (types)

a. Two c. Three
b. Eight d. Nine

48. Is the term applied to a person whose fingers are more than the usual number in both hands?
a. Polydactyl c. Deformities
b. Bidactyl d. Polyfinger

49. Before classifying any given fingerprint card it is necessary to check first the rolled prints to
determine proper placement of the prints using ______ as the guide.
a. The record c. The plain impression
b. The hand of the subject d. The ink slab

50. Makes a publication of a report describing the ridges and pores of the hand and feet which was
read before the Royal Society of London.
a. Hintze c. Nehemiah Grew
b. Bidloo d. Albinus

51. Who’s the father of Dactyloscopy and professor of Anatomy, Theology and Physiology at the
University of Breslau, Prussia in 1823 that described the different patterns of the fingers and
classified them into nine groups?

a. Johannes Purkenjie c. Alphonse Bertillion

b. Henry Faulds d. Edmund Locard

52.The first conviction based on fingerprints last December 20, 1933 and the leading judicial
decision in Philippine Jurisprudence is People versus:
a. a. Saplro c. Alonzo
b. b. Dela Cruz d. Medina

53. Who was the first Filipino Fingerprint Technician employed at the Philippine Constabulary?
a. Tomas Medina c. Ricardo David
b. Generoso Reyes d. Dominador Santos

54. What refers to an epidermal hairless skin found on the ventral or lower surface of the hands
and feet covered with minute ridges and furrows and without pigment or coloring matters?
a. Furrows c. friction Skin
b. Ridge d. Dermal Papillae

55. What branch of science deals with the scientific study of the palm of the hand which can be a
means of identification?
a. Podoscopy c. Chiroscopy
b. Poroscopy d. Dactyloscopy

56. What type of iOO is characterized in which the downward slope or the slanting ridges run
towards the direction of the thumb?
a. Radial c. Central Pocket
b. Ulnar d. Double

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 57. What do you call the inner layer of the skin containing blood vessels, various glands and
nerves where the dermal papillae can be found?
a. Epidermis c. Comeum
b. Dermis d. Mucosum

58. It is an Impression made or placed in the fingerprint card taken individually by rolling the ten
fingers of subject, ‘180 degrees from the tip to the second joint and from one side of the nail to the
other, nail to nail.
a. Plain c. Rolled
b. Flat d. Complex

59. What is kind of ridge formation that curves back in the direction from which it started?
a. Looping c. Eyelet
b. Converging d. Bifurcation

60. Who coined the word PHOTOGRAPHY?

a. Talbot c. Daguerre
b. Petzval d. Niepce

61. What is the first practical photographic process given to the world?
a. Polaroid c. Calbotype
b. Talbotype d. Daguerreotype

62. Who advocated the electromagnetic theory of light?

a. Maxwell c. Aristotle
b. Einstein d. Huygens

63.Who invented the first truly practical dry plate negative process, using gelatin in place of
collodion to bind sliver halides to glass plates?
a. Vogel c. Maddox
b. Dancer d. Huygens

64. What is the process of obtaining photographic magnification of minute objects by using a
camera attached to a compound microscope?
a. Microscopy c. Photomacrography
b. Macroscopy d. Photomicrography

65. It is the distance between the nearest object to a camera and the object between them.
a. Wavelength c. Focal length
b. Crest d. Depth of field

66. A system of identification best used in case of burned body called:

a. Photography c. Forensic odontology
b. Fingerprint d. Skeletal identification

67. He is known to be the father of personal identification having devised the first scientific
method of personal identification. Also known as the father of Mug-shot photography.
a. Alphonse Bertilllon c. John F. W. Herschel
b. Cesare Lambroso d. John Dellinger

68. A system of classification used in the Philippines called:

a. Vucetich system c. Galton system
b. Henry system d. Henry-Galton w/ FBI modification

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 69. The Filipino who top the first comprehensive examination in fingerprint which was initiated by
New York Police Dept and FBI.
a. Patricio Agustin c. Generoso Reyes
b. Marcel Bonifaclo d. Isabela Bernales

70.This refers to the actual path of the bullet during its flight from the gun muzzle to the target
called:
a. Trajectory c. Boulevard
b. Way d. Avenue

71. The branch of ballistics which treats of the motion of the projectile while it is stiff inside the gun
barrel?
a. Forensic ballistic c. Terminal ballistic
b. External ballistic d. Internal ballistic

72. It is a type of firearms that propel projectiles which is more than one inch in diameter.
a. Yoke c. Artillery
b. Small d. Hand Arm

73. Who started in 1855 the production of a single shot rifle that was adopted by Winchester?
a. Gatling c. Derringer
b. Colt d. Browning

74. It is a part of firearm that initiates the path of the bullet.

a. Yoke c. Muzzle
b. Bolt d. Barrel

75. It is a short barrel handgun designed to fire a single projectile through a rifle-bore for every
press of the trigger.
a. Pistol c. Caliber 22
b. Musket d. Revolver

76. Pioneered in the making of a breech loading firearms and founded the great firm Smith and
Wesson.
a. Samuel Colt c. John Browning
b. Horace Smith d. Daniel Wesson

77. It is the speed of the bullet per unit of time expressed in feet per second:
a. Velocity c. Pressure
b. Trajectory d. Air resistance

78. The terms muzzle velocity refers most accurately to the:

a. Rate of expansion of the grooves in the muzzle
b. Speed at which the bullets leaves the barrel
c. Acceleration of the projectile in flight
d. Average speed of the bullet in flight

79. A shaving marks on a bullet is due to:

a. Oily barrel c. poor alignment of the cylinder
b. Oversized barrel d. Delayed combustion

80. The basis of cartridge case identification as to have been discharged to a particular firearm is:
a. Firing pin marks and breech marks
b. Lands and grooves marking
c. Extractor & ejector mark face
d. Magazine and chambers marks
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 81. A revolver to be tested and used in evidence should be picked up by:
a. Inserting a wire or straw through the bigger guard
b. Inserting a rod or a bar at the bore of the fire arm
c. Grasping the handle with a handkerchief
d. Grasping the barrel with a dean doth

82.The caliber of a bullet is measured through?

a. Using a caliper c. Measuring the base diameter
b. Using a micrometer d. Two opposite lands

83. An optical instrument used or designed to make simultaneous comparison of two specimens?
a. Shadowgraph c. Comparison microscope
b. Chronograph d. Micrometer

84. The importance of individual marks on a bullet by a gun barrel is that it is useful in directly
identifying the:
a. Possible direction of shot left
b. Gun from which a bullet was fired
c. Bullet which caused the fatal wound
d. Person who fired the particular firearm

85. Heart specialist who described in two British journals the polygraph machine as Ink Polygraph?
a. Dr. Hans Gross c. William Moulton Marston
b. Sir James Makenzie d. Leonarde Keeler

86. The person who made the first suggestion for using the Psycho Galvanic reaction for detecting
deception and we stated that galvanic skin phenomenon is under the influence of exciting mental
Impressions and the will has no effect upon it
a. Harold Burn c. Victoria Bennussi
b. Sticker d. Veraguth

87. What was added in the Larson’s polygraph machine by Leonarde Keeler:
a. Pneumograph c. Cardiosphymograph
b. Kymograph d. Galvanograph

88. Is an ancient method of detecting deception practice in Bengal, India where accused to prove
his innocent would touch his tongue to an extremely hot metal:
a. Ordeal of balance c. Ordeal of heat and fire
b. Boiling water ordeal d. Red hot iron ordeal

89. which of the following notions about polygraph, machine is wrong (fancies)?
a. It flashes a light c. It has a dial indicator
b. It rings a bell d. All of the above

90. Which of the following is one among the major components of the polygraph?
a. Blood pressure cuff c. Cardiospymograph
b. Kymograph d. Sphygmomanograph

91. Is the part of the galvanograph compotient which converts electrical to mechanical current:
a. Sensitivity knob c. Resonance control
b. Amplifier unit d. Finger electrode assembly

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 92. Is that part of the galvanograph component which was attached to the body of the subject with
the length of ten inches?
a. Blood pressure cuff c. Finger electrode plate
b. Beaded chain d. Rubber convoluted tube

93. Is the sum total of the dissimulation which the child acquires from his surroundings once he
learned to go out and socialized with his neighborhood.
a. Education c. Personality
b. Heredity d. Environment
c.
94. Is the normal rate of pulse beat of an adult subject in polygraph test?
a. 70-75 b. 60-65 c. 6-12 d. 13-15

95. The investigator should avoid asking witnesses long complicated questions because this will:
a. Renders difficulty in obtaining the facts for conviction
b. Enable him to ascertain the purpose of the interviewer
c. Give the witness a chance to formulate desired answer
d. Embraces him and cause him to answer he does not know

96. In the schematic outline on the isolation and identification of some common poisons, the
specimen should first be
a. Distilled with or without stem c. mixed with chemical antidotes
b. Ether-extracted d. Alkaline solution

97. It is the biological test for blood?

a. Precipitin test c. Microscopic test
b. Benzidine test d. Stereoscopic test

98. Which of the following substance is most likely to be used in committing murder?
a. Belladonna c. Strychnine
b. Alcohol d. Antimony

99. To confirm the presence of blood we look for?

a. White cloudy precipitate.
b. White crystalline
c. Salmon pink, hemoglobin
d. Dark brown rhomboid crystal

100. The first Chief of the Medico-legal Division of the Bureau of Investigation
a. Paulus Zacchias c. Dr. Enrique V. delos Santos
b. Antistius d. Dr. Sixto delos Angeles

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