Criminalistics Review Questions 2

1. The following are types of medical evidence, except:

A. Photographic evidence

B. Experimental evidence

C. Testimonial evidence

D. Autoptic evidence

2. The art of identification by comparison of fingerprint is called:

A. Dactylography

B. All of the these

C. Dactyloscopy

D. Palmistry

3. Some scientific methods of identification are the following, except:

A. Fingerprinting

B. Handwriting

C. Dental identification

D. Identification by close friends and relatives

4. The greater the number of points of similarities and dissimilarities of

two persons compared, the greater the probability for the

conclusion to be correct is found in the

A. Law of Municipality of Evidence in Identification

B. All of the these

C. Identification by Comparison and Exclusion

D. Law of Super Imposition

5. In the strict sense of the word, Forensic Medicine means

A. application of medicine to legal cases

B. application of medical science to elucidate legal problems

C. knowledge of law in relation to practice of medicine

D. none of the above

E. all of the above

6. The different test to determine peripheral circulation are the

following, except

A. Magnus test

B. Diaphanous test

C. I card’s test

D. Winslow’s test

7. The following officials of the Philippine Government are authorized to

conduct death investigation, except -

A. Public Prosecutor

B. Judges of the regional trial court

C. Director PNP

D. SOCO team

8. The following statements are important in death determination.

Which is not valid?.

A. Civil personality of a natural person is extinguished by

death

B. Civil property of a person is transmitted to the heirs, if

not, to the government

C. The death of the partner is one of the causes of

dissolution of partnership agreement

D. The criminal liability of a person is extinguished by death

9. The following are kinds of death, which one is not?

A. Somatic or Clinical Death

B. State of Suspended Animation

C. Cellular or Molecular Death

D. Regulated Death

10. Of the following kinds of death, which one is relevant to Organ

Transportation?

A. Somatic or clinical Death

B. State of Suspended Animation

C. Molecular Death

D. Cellular Death

11. To find out the truth is an essential requirement for the

administration of Justice. Which of the following is the commonly

used method of deception detection?

A. Lie detection method

B. Hypnotism

C. Use of drugs

D. Confession

12. In molecular or cellular death, death of individual cells is with in

A. 3-6 minutes

B. 3-6 hours

C. 20-30 minutes

D. 20-30 hours

13. Post-mortem lividity has the following mechanisms:

A. Hypostatic pressure

B. Diffusion

C. Gravitational pressure

D. All of the above

14. Hanging is asphyxia due to the constriction of the neck as a result

of suspension in which the weight of the body pulls upon the

ligature.What differentiates it from strangulation by a ligature

therefore is:

A. The factor of suspension

B. Hanging raises a presumption of suicide

C. Strangulation is usually homicidal

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

15. Distinctions between ante-mortem from post-mortem clot are the

following. Which one is not valid?

A. Ante-mortem clot is firm in consistency

B. Clot is homogenous in construction so it cannot be

stripped into layers

C. Clot with varied colors

D. Surface of the blood vessels are raw after the clots are

removed

16. Post-mortem lividity maybe due to any of the following, except:

A. Hypostasis

B. Autolysis

C. Diffusion
D. Suggillation

17. Comprehensive study of dead body, performed by a trained

Physician, to determine the cause of death:

A. Autopsy

B. Biophsis

C. Dissection

D. Physicians

18. Articles and materials found in the crime scene:

A. Physical evidence

B. Associative evidence

C. Evidence

D. Tracing evidence

19. Circumscribed extravation of blood or subcutaneous tissue or

underneath the mucous membrane.

A. Contusion

B. Petechia

C. Abrasion

D. All of them

20. Among the following, which has the greatest value in scientific

examination/identification?

A. Dental examination

B. Fingerprinting

C. Photography

D. Pictures Parle

21. One is a condition that can approximate the time of death.

A. Cadaver

B. Magnus test

C. Rigor mortis

D. None of these

22. The means sanctioned by the law, of ascertaining the judicial

power/proceeding, the truth respecting the matter of fact.

A. Polygraph

B. Evidence

C. Lie detector

D. All of these

23. Determination of individuality of a person or thing:

A. Description

B. Perception

C. Identification

D. All of these

24. Types of fingerprint patters, except:

A. Arches

B. Ordinary

C. Loop

D. Whorl

25. It is any unusual pattern of sexual behavior including habitual,

preference and completing need for sexual gratification by any

means except sexual intercourse which results to bodily

excitement

A. Virginity
B. Sexual intercourse

C. Prostitution

D. Sexual deviation

26. An open wound produced by a sharp-pointed instrument and is

characterized by a small opening of the wound.

A. Gunshot wound

B. Stab wound

C. Shrapnel wound

D. Punctured wound Answer: D

27. A physical injury wherein the offended victim is incapacitated for

work or requires medical assistance for 10 days or more but not

A. Slight physical injury

B. Mutilation

C. Serious physical injury

D. less serious physical injury Answer: D

28. It is the type of burn due to gamma rays and which is difficult to

remedy:

A. Thermal burn

B. Electric burn

C. Chemical burn

D. Radiation burn Answer: D

29. The metal tube through which the bullet is fired is called

A. Bore

B. Barrel

C. Baretta
D. Bromet Answer: B

30. The old form of gunpowder invented over a thousand years ago

and consisting of nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.

A. Chinese Powder

B. Black Powder

C. Gray Powder

D. All of these Answer: B

31. The inside of the barrel is generally termed as

A. Bore

B. Barrel

C. Rifling

D. Primer Answer: A

32. The portion of the gun which is held or shouldered is called

A. Buckle

B. Buttstock

C. Handle

D. End joint Answer: B

33. In a gun, the portion of the "action" that holds the cartridge ready

for firing is called

A. Gas tube

B. Chamber

C. Double-action

D. Trigger Answer: B

34. A metal rod or plate that strikes the cartridge primer to detonate

the powder.
A. Spring

B. Trigger guard

C. Hammer

D. Revolver Answer: C

35. This is a device for storing cartridges in a repeating firearm for

loading into the chamber. Also referred to as a "clip".

A. Clipper

B. Holder

C. Pin or pinhead

D. None of these Answer: D

36. A device that fits over the muzzle of the barrel to muffle the

sound of a gunshot. Most work by baffling the escape of gases.

A. Buffer

B. Silencer

C. Magazine

D. Hanger Answer: B

37. Under the management of Lt. Darby during the American

occupation in the Philippines, a modern and complete fingerprint

file has been established for the Philippine commonwealth. In 1937,

the first Filipino fingerprint technician employed by the Phil.

Constabulary was

A. Mr. Generoso Reyes

B. Mr. Amado Delos Santos

C. Mr. Calixto Solis

D. None of these Answer: A

38. The first leading judicial decision in the Philippine jurisprudence on

the science of fingerprinting was the case of

A. People vs Medina

B. People vs Pineda

C. People vs Amador

D. People vs. Rosas Answer: A

39. What is the intermediate and the thickest layer of the hair and is

composed of elongated, spindle-shaped fibrils which cohere? They

contain pigment granules in varying proportion depending on the

type of hair.

A. Medulla

B. Cortex

C. Core

D. Cuticle Answer: B

40. Who was the noted British Examiner of questioned documents said

that an intelligent police investigator can detect almost 75% of all

forgeries by careful inspection of a document with simple

magnifiers and measuring tools?

A. Dr. Arthur Stoll

B. Dr. Aristotle Curt

C. Dr. William Harrison

D. Dr. Benjamin Jones Answer: C

41. In police photography studies, what are called the thin, gelatinous,

light-sensitive coatings on film that react chemically to capture

the color and shadings of a scene?

A. Films

B. Emulsions

C. Chemical Coatings

D. None of these Answer: B

42. A medium that divert or absorb light, but does not allow lights to

pass though, they absorb most of the light while reflecting some of

it is called

A. Opaque object

B. Convection

C. Visible light

D. Prisms Answer: A

43. In the practice of polygraphy, what do you call questions

unrelated to the matter under investigation but are of similar

nature although less serious as compared to those relevant

questions under investigation?

A. Irrelevant questions

B. Relevant questions

C. Control questions

D. Interrogative questions Answer: C

44. What test is given if a subject of interrogation is not yet informed

of the details of the offense for which he is being interrogated by

the investigation, or by other persons or from other sources like

the print media?

A. Peak of Tension test

B. Control test
C. IQ Test

D. Guilt Complex Test Answer: A

45. In fingerprinting, the space between shoulders of a loop, free of

any appendage, and a butting at right angle.

A. Complete curve

B. Sufficient Recurve

C. Straight arrow

D. Core Answer: B

46. The term use to refer to a single recurving ridge enclosing one or

more rods or bars of a fingerprint.

A. None of these

B. Envelope

C. Furrows

D. Bifurcation Answer: B

47. These are depressions or canals between the ridges of a

fingerprint which maybe compared with the low area in a tire

tread.

A. None of these

B. Envelope

C. Furrows

D. Bifurcation Answer: C

48. In the study of questioned documents, what do you call the

quality of paper that does not allow light to pass through or which

prevents dark objects from being seen through the paper?

A. Opacity
B. Watermarks

C. Skid marks

D. Invisibility Answer: A

49. What is the oldest ink material known?

A. Ball point pen ink

B. Chinese Ink

C. Aniline Ink

D. White Ink Answer: B

50. It is the art of extracting and working on metals by the application

of chemical and physical knowledge.

A. Cryptography

B. Metallurgy

C. Casting

D. Matalisky Answer: B

51. The branch of geology that deals with the systematic

classification and identification of rocks, rock forming minerals and

soil.Also includes study of dust, dirt, safe insulation, ceramics and

other such materials, both natural and artificial.

A. Petrography

B. Serology

C. Anthropology

D. Ecology Answer: A

52. In a fire, the presence of reddish brown smoke indicates

A. Nitrocellulose

B. Sulfuric acid
C. Nitric acid

D. All of these Answer: D

53. The bending of light around an object gives rise to the

phenomenon called

A. attraction

B. diffraction

C. light curve

D. light fingerprint Answer: B

54. Under the law of reflection, The angle of reflection depends upon

the angle of the light striking the material, which is referred to as

the

A. angle of incidence

B. angle of biometry

C. angle of light

D. none of these Answer: A

55. In ballistics, what is the pressure generated within the chamber

erroneously called breeched pressure?

A. Chamber Pressure

B. Barrel Pressure

C. Gunpowder

D. None of these Answer: A

56. The ratio of the weight of the powder charge to the weight of the

projectile is called

A. Power to speed ratio

B. Charge weight to bullet weight ratio

C. Firing pin stroke ratio

D. All of these Answer: B

57. Chemical rearrangement of molecules into gas instead of solids to

cause the high explosives to exert full power of shock. The speed

varies in different explosive but in some it is as high as 7000 yards

in a second. This refers to

A. Energy

B. Gas

C. Detonation

D. Gun powder Answer: C

58. What occurs when a cartridge fails to explode on time or delayed

in firing?

A. Knocking Power

B. Hang fire

C. Recoil

D. None of these Answer: B

59. In China, fingerprint is called ___. It was valued for purposes of

identification since time immemorial as found on a Chinese clay

seal made not later than the 3rd Century B.C.

A. Hua Chi

B. Mah Whang

C. Wong Cho

D. Tiang Hin Answer: A

60. Who has given the fame title as “Father of Dactyloscopy”?

A. Johannes Purkinje
B. Leonard Keeler

C. Charles Darwin

D. Sir Francis Galton Answer: A

61. In Hoogly, district of Bengal, India, he used fingerprints to prevent

fraudulent collection of army pay account and for identification of

other documents. He was known as the Father of Chiroscopy.

A. William Herschel

B. Francis Galton

C. Gilbert Thompson

D. Alphonse Bertillon Answer: A

62. A noted British anthropologist who began observation which led to

the publication in 1882 of his book “Fingerprints.” That

established the individuality of classifying fingerprint patterns.

A. Francis Galton

B. Gilbert Thompson

C. Wayne Kate

D. Alphonse Bertillon Answer: A

63. The notorious gangster and a police character, who attempted to

erase his fingerprints by burning them with acid but as time went

by the ridges were again restored to their “natural” feature.

A. John Fielding

B. Johanes Curie

C. John Dellinger

D. Billy the Kid Answer: C

64. What is the science of palm print identification?

A. Chiroscopy

B. Poroscopy

C. Podoscopy

D. Astrology Answer: B

65. A single ridge which splits into two ridges forming a “Y” shape

formation or structure is commonly known as

A. Diverging ridges

B. Bifurcating ridges

C. Loop

D. Delta Answer: B

66. Symbolized by letter W in the fingerprint classification. It is a

fingerprint pattern which there are two deltas and in which at

least one ridge makes a turn through one complete circuit.

A. Plain whorl

B. Central pocket loop whorl

C. Accidental loop

D. Ulnar loop Answer: A

67. Father of Criminalistics.

A. Dr. Hans Gross

B. Dr. Cesare Lombroso

C. Dr. John Reid

D. Dr. John Larson Answer: A

68. Which evidence offers least resistance to decomposition?

A. Semen

B. Urine
C. Hair

D. Blood Answer: C

69. One in which the facts appearing therein may not be true, and are

contested either in whole or part with respect to its authenticity,

identity, or origin.

A. Questioned document

B. Illegal document

C. Falsified document

D. Disputed facts Answer: A

70. Are condensed and compact set of authentic specimens which,

if adequate and proper, should contain a cross section of the

material from a known source for questioned document

examination.

A. Basis products

B. Standards

C. Handwriting

D. Signatures Answer: B

71. A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to

characterize known material.

A. Basis

B. Exemplar

C. Xerox copies

D. Reproduced Answer: B

72. When a document is issued and notarized by a notary public or

competent public official with solemnities required by law, it is

called

A. Official document

B. Public document

C. Commercial document

D. Private Document Answer: B

73. What is known as the blotting out or shearing over the writing to

make the original invisible to as an addition?

A. Obliteration

B. Obscuration

C. Forged

D. None of these Answer: A

74. In legal language, it refers to the document examiner's conclusion.

In Court, he may not only express it but demonstrates the

reasons for arriving at his conclusion.

A. Remarks

B. Testimony

C. Opinion

D. Reasoning Answer: C

75. In this kind of document examination, the document is viewed with

the source of illumination behind it and the light passing through

the paper.Documents are subjected to this type of examination to

determine the presence of erasures, matching of serrations and

some other types of alterations.

A. Microscopic examination

B. Ultra violet examination

C. Photographic examination

D. Transmitted light examination Answer: D

76. Ultraviolet radiation is invisible and occurs in the wave lengths just

below the visible blue-violet end of the spectrum (rainbow). These

visible rays react on some substances so that visible light is

reflected, a phenomenon known as

A. Prism

B. Fluorescence

C. Infrared

D. Radiation Answer: B

77. It is the result of a very complicated series of facts, being used as

whole, combination of certain forms of visible mental and muscular

habits acquired by long, continued painstaking effort.Some

defined it as “visible speech.”

A. Typewriting

B. Money Bills

C. Handwriting

D. All of these Answer: C

78. In document examination, what is the relation of parts of the

whole of writing or line of individual letters in words to the

baseline?

A. Proportion

B. Alignment

C. Lining

D. Letter forms Answer: B

79. Any property or mark which distinguishes and in document

examination commonly called to as the identifying details si called

A. Standard

B. Characteristics

C. Attribute

D. Form Answer: B

80. The act of setting two or more items side by side to weigh their

identifying qualities; it refers not only a visual but also the mental

act in which the element of one item are related to the

counterparts of the other.

A. Collation

B. Analysis

C. Comparison

D. Recording Answer: C

81. In the study handwriting, the movement of the pen toward the

writer is called

A. Downstroke

B. Backstroke

C. Sidestroke

D. None of these Answer: A

82. It is a signature, signed at a particular time and place, under

particular conditions, while the signer was at particular age, in a

particular physical and mental condition, using particular

implements, and with a particular reason and purpose for recording

his name.
A. Fraudulent Signature

B. Freehand forged signature

C. Guided Signature

D. Evidential Signature Answer: D

83. It is the crime of making, circulating or uttering false coins and

banknotes. Literally, it means to make a copy of; or imitate; to

make a spurious semblance of, as money or stamps, with the

intent to deceive or defraud.

A. Counterfeiting

B. Falsification

C. Forgery

D. Fake money bills Answer: A

84. A fluid or viscous marking material used for writing or printing.

A. Pen

B. Ink

C. Coal

D. Chalk Answer: B

85. In 1884, who was this insurance agent in New York who patented

the first practical fountain pen containing its own ink reservoir

A. Lewis Waterman

B. John Loud

C. Peter Reynolds

D. Henry Ball Answer: A

86. What do you calle the type of instrument used in measuring pitch

of rifling firearms
A. Pinometer

B. Helixometer

C. Thermometer

D. Caliper Answer: B

87. This valuable instrument is specially designed to permit the

firearms examiner to determine the similarity and dissimilarity

between two fired bullets or two fired shells, by simultaneously

observing their magnified image in a single microscopic field.

A. Magnetic field device

B. Compound microscope

C. Bullet comparison microscope

D. Photographic microscope Answer:C

88. Consist of a wooden box, 12 “x”12”x 96, with a hinged to cover

and with one end open. This long box is filled with ordinary cotton

and separated into sections by cardboard petitions use in

ballistics.

A. Firing point box

B. Bullet recovery box

C. Slug collection box

D. All of these Answer: B

89. Photographic films maybe classified according to their forms and

types. What are the films that are sensitive to radiation?

A. Chrome Films

B. X-Ray Films

C. B&W Films
D. Colored Films Answer: B

90. Which film is suitable for general use in the preparation of black

and white photography because it produces the most natural

recording of colors?

A. Panchromatic film

B. Chrome Films

C. X-Ray Films

D. Color Films Answer: A

91. One film maybe rated ISO – 100, and another film ISO- 200. This

means that the 200 films are twice as fast (twice more sensitive

to light) than the ISO-100 film. This statement is

A. true

B. false

C. partly true

D. partly false Answer: A

92. Among the following speed of film, which has the fastest speed?

A. ISO – 25

B. ISO – 100 to ISO – 200

C. ISO – 400

D. ISO – 1000 and up Answer: D

93. Chromatic aberration is the failure of different colored light rays to

focus after passing through a lens, focusing of light of different

colors at different points resulting in a blurred image.

A. Astigmatism

B. Bended light
C. Chromatic aberration

D. Pragmatic rays Answer: C

94. What is the defect in which the light coming from an off-axis

object point is spread along the direction of the optic axis? If the

object is a vertical line, the cross section of the refracted beam at successively greater distances from the
lens is an ellipse that

collapses first into a horizontal line, spreads out again, and later

becomes a vertical line.

A. Astigmatism

B. Bended light

C. Chromatic aberration

D. Pragmatic rays Answer: A

95. Depth of field is the range in front of and behind a sharply focused

subject in which details also look sharp in the final photographic

image.

A. Focus

B. Depth of field

C. Camera trick

D. Aperture Answer: B

96. In photography, what determines how effectively a moving object

can be stopped, that is, how sharply it can be reproduced without

blurring, or streaking in the final image?

A. Focus

B. Shutter speed

C. Aperture

D. Lens Answer: B
97. What makes a bullet spin? Without spin, a bullet would not stay

pointed forward in flight, but would tumble over and over. The

spinning motion increases the accuracy of a bullet.

A. Bore

B. Gunpowder

C. Rifling

D. Shell Answer: C

98. What component of the polygraph machine records the changes in

the breathing of the subject?

A. Pneumograph

B. Cardiograph

C. Galvanograph

D. Kymograph Answer: A

99. In fingerprinting, it refers to the process of counting the

intervening ridges that touch or cross an imaginary line drawn

between the core and the delta.

A. Ridge counting

B. Ridge tracing

C. Delta tracing

D. All of these Answer: A

100.For many years the most commonly used preliminary test for blood

A. Plasma count

B. Serum test

C. Benzidine test

D. Barberio’s test Answer: C

Answers:Criminalistics

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

5. B

6. C

7. B

8. B

9. D

10. A

11. A

12. A

13. D

14. E

15. C

16. B

17. A

18. A

19. A

20. B

21. C

22. B

23. C

24. B
25. D