The questioning of a person in a formal and systematic way and is most often used to question criminal

suspects to
determine their probable guilt or innocence.
A. Inquiry
B. Interview
C. polygraph examination
D. interrogation
LONG QUIZ in EVIDENCE: KEY ANSWERS

1. The questioning of a person in a formal and systematic way and is most often used to question
criminal suspects to determine their probable guilt or innocence.
a. Inquiry
b. interview
c. polygraph examination
d. interrogation
2. The degree of proof which produces in the mind of an unprejudiced person, that moral certainty
or moral conviction that the accused did commit the offense charged:
a. Ultimate fact
b. Preponderance of evidence
c. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
d. Substantial evidence
3. It means that a specific crime was committed at a specified time, date, and place, and that the
person named in his report committed the crime.
a. corpus delicti
b. stare decisis
c. sufficiency of evidence
d. parens patriae
4. Such facts and circumstances that would lead a reasonably discreet and prudent man to believe
that an offense has been committed and that the object sought in connection with the offense is in
the place sought to be searched.
a. prima facie evidence
b. probable cause
c. prejudicial question
d. res ipsa loquitur
5. The three tools in criminal investigation, whereby their application varies in proportion to their
necessity establish the guilt of the accused in a criminal case.
a. Information, interrogation, instrumentation
b. detection, apprehension, conviction
c. inquiry, observation, conclusion
d. magnifying glass, pencil, caution tape
6. It involves a number of persons who might have handled evidence between the time of the
consummation of the alleged offense and the disposition of the case, which should be kept to a
minimum.
a. chain of command
b. chain of custody
c. evidence tracking
d. tracing evidence
7. Articles and materials which are found in connection with an investigation and which help in
establishing the identity of the perpetrator or the circumstances under which the crime was
committed or which in general, assist in the prosecution of the criminal.
 a. physical evidence
b. documentary evidence
c. tracing evidence
d. testimonial evidence
8. Evidence which directly addressed to the senses of the court and consists of tangible things
exhibited, viewed, or demonstrated in open court.
a. object evidence
b. physical evidence
c. documentary evidence
d. testimonial evidence
9. Refers to the statement made by the litigants in the judicial proceedings:
a. Judicial Notice
b. Judicial Confessions
c. Judicial Admissions
d. Pleadings
10. Evidence which consists of writing, recording, photographs, or any material containing words,
sounds, numbers, figures, symbols, or their equivalent or other modes of written expression offered
as proof of their contents.
a. object evidence
b. physical evidence
c. documentary evidence
d. testimonial evidence
11. Inferences which the law makes so preemptory that it will not allow them to be overturned by
any contrary proof:
a. Presumption
b. Disputable Presumption
c. Conclusive Presumption
d. Estoppel

12. The degree of proof which produces in the mind of an unprejudiced person, that moral
certainty or moral conviction that the accused did commit the offense charged:
a. Ultimate fact
b. Preponderance of evidence
c. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
d. Substantial evidence
13. Which of the following admissions made by a party in the course of judicial proceedings is a
judicial admission?
a. Admissions made in pleading signed by the party and his counsel intended to be filed.
b. An admission made in a pleading in another case between the same parties.
c. Admission made by counsel in open court.
d. Admissions made in a complaint superseded by an amended complaint.

14. What will happen if the procedure of chain of custody were not followed?
a. produces doubts as to the origins of the seized illegal drugs.
b. a concomitant failure on the part of the prosecution to establish the identity of the corpus delicti.
c. value of the seized items cannot be trusted.
d. evidence is inadmissible
15. What is the legal standard that must be preserved in prosecuting drug cases?
a. preservation of the integrity and the evidentiary value of the seized items.
b. preservation of perfectness and unbrokenness of the chain custody.
c. preservation of genuineness of the seized items.
d. all of the foregoing
16. Upon the filing of the case, the court shall within 72 hours conduct an ocular inspection, and the
PDEA shall within 24 hours proceed with what action?
a. destruction of the item seized
b. submits a certificate of forensic laboratory result
c. submits inventory and photograph
d. conduct qualitative and quantitative examination
17. Which is not a link to the chain of custody in prosecuting drug cases?
a. Seizure and marking recovered from the accused
b. turnover of the illegal drug to apprehending officer to investigating officer
c. turnover by the investigating officer to court
d. turnover by the forensic chemist to the court
18. It is the ultimate fact or facts sought to be established.
a. Factum Probandum
b. Factum Probans
c. prima facie
d. cumulative evidence
19. Is direct evidence the only source of the conclusion of the trial court?
a. Yes, since it is the kind of evidence if believed proves the fact in issue.
b. Yes, there are no other basis in drawing conclusion by the trial court.
c. No, the trial court may also rely on circumstantial evidence to support its conclusion
d. No, the trial court may also rely on its own to support its conclusion
20. When is corroborative evidence necessary?
a. only when there are reasons to warrant the suspicion that the witness falsified the truth or that his
observation had been inaccurate
b. only when denial and alibi are corroborated by relatives and friends
c. only when evidence denotes which, if unexplained or uncontradicted, is sufficient to sustain the
proposition it supports
d. only when there is a need to determine the required quantum of evidence in order to convict the
accused
21. It is a kind of evidence in which a witness affirms that a fact did or did not occur.
a. Positive evidence
b. Negative evidence
c. Substantial evidence
d. Cumulative evidence

22. It is a kind of evidence that is directed to prove a fact in issue as determined by the rules on
substantive law and pleadings.
a. Rebuttal evidence
b. Material evidence
c. Clear and convincing evidence
d. Competent evidence
23. In the hierarchy of evidentiary values, what holds the highest level?
a. Proof beyond reasonable doubt
b. Clear and convincing evidence
c. Preponderance of evidence
d. Substantial evidence
24. In what cases the Rules on Electronic Evidence will apply?
a. To all civil actions and proceedings
b. Quasi-judicial and administrative cases
c. Cyber cases
d. Social media related cases
25. Refers to an evidence of the same kind adduced to prove the same fact:
a. Real
b. Corroborative
c. Cumulative
d. Circumstantial
26. The probative value given by the court to a particular evidence:
a. Preponderance of evidence
b. Ultimate fact
c. Evidentiary fact
d. Weight of evidence

27.Under the Rules on Evidence, the following is a conclusive presumption and therefore cannot be
contradicted by evidence.
a. A person intends the ordinary consequences of his voluntary act.
b. Official duty has been regularly performed.
c. A tenant cannot deny his landlord’s title during the tenancy period.
d. A writing is truly dated
25. Which of the following statements is not accurate?
a. A plea of guilty later withdrawn is admissible in evidence against the accused who made the plea.
b. An unaccepted offer of a plea of guilty to a lesser offense is admissible in evidence against the
accused.
c. An offer to pay or payment of medical expenses arising from injury is not evidence or proof of
civil/ criminal liability for the injury.
d. In civil cases, an offer of compromise by the accused is admissible as an implied admission of
guilt.

29. When may circumstantial evidence be sufficient to obtain conviction?

a. When there is one circumstance
b. The facts from which the inference are derived were proven
c. When combined proof beyond reasonable doubt may be established
d. All of the foregoing

30. During trial,plaintiff X offered evidence that appeared irrelevant at the time but he said he was
eventually going to relate to the issue in the case by some future evidence. Then, defendant Y
objected. Should the trial court reject the evidence in question on ground of irrelevance?
a. No, it should reserve its ruling until the relevance is shown.
b. Yes, since the plaintiff could anyway subsequently present the evidence anew.
c. Yes, since irrelevant evidence is not admissible.
d. No, it should admit it conditionally until its relevance is shown.