MOCKBOARD EXAMINATION

CRIMINALISTICS
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each answer by shading the box to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet
provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 1 only.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1.

The common problems/questions relative to inks in questioned documents:

a. Whether the ink or different in kind from ink on other parts of the same documents, or
on the other documents
b. Whether two writings made same kind of ink were made with the identical ink, or
with inks of different qualities or in different conditions
c. Manner of making entries of documents
d. None of the above

2.

The molecules that carries the genetic code of heredity throughout all generation of every
living thing:
a. DPA
b. MDMA
c. MMDA
d. DNA
e. RNA

3.

The central core of a strand of the hair which form the bulk of the fiber:
a. Cuticle
b. Cortex
c. Medulla
d. Root

4.

Infrared radiation is also known as:

a. Disco light
b. Black light
c. Coherent light
d. Heat rays

5.

The purpose of a rifled barrel is:

a. To impart a rotary motion to the bullet
b. To give gyroscopic action
c. For stable flight
d. For greater accuracy and penetration

6.

Designed to probe whether the polygraph subject posses information regarding the identity of
the offender, location, evidences or other secondary element of the office under investigation:
a. Evidence connecting question
b. Knowledge question
c. Control question
d. Interrogation

7.

The double action in firearm means:

a. Manually cocks the hammer
b. Magazine loaded before firing
c. Trigger must be press twice
d. Cocks and release the hammer at the same time

8.

In fingerprint ACCIDENTAL is classified as;

a. Loop
b. Unusual
c. Whorl
d. Arch

9.

Preliminary test in blood in a solution of 1 to 3, 000, 000 dilution is:

a. Benzidine
b. Guaiacum
c. Phenolphthalein
d. Leucomalachite

10. These are drugs which affect sensation, thinking, self awareness and emotion. It maybe mild
or overwhelming depending on dose and quality of drugs:
a. Hallucinogens
b. Narcotics
c. Phenolphthalein
d. Leucomalachite
11. As early as 3rd century B.C., Fingerprint was first introduced as a medium identification by
using soft mud or clay by impressing the finger and thumb on it:
a. Chine
b. Egypt
c. India
d. Babylonia
12. It was find out by the authorities in Dactyloscopy that 65% of fingerprint patterns are
classified as:
a. Whorl
b. Loops
c. Arches
d. Combination of Loop & Whorl
13. While 30% of the patterns are classified as:
a. Whorl
b. Loops
c. Arches
d. Combination of Loop & Whorl
14. 5% of the patterns are classified as:
a. Whorl
b. Loops
c. Arches
d. Combination of Loop & Whorl
15. On the fingerprint card position for the left hand, loops are flowing towards the radius bone
impression is classified as:
a. Ulnar loop
b. Twin loop
c. Radial loop
d. Lateral pocket loop
16. A noted British anthropologist who established individuality and performance of fingerprints:
a. Henry Faulds
b. Sir Edward Henry
c. Sir Francis Galton
d. Marcelo Manphigi
17. In the ridge count of the first loop in a set with fingerprints beginning with right thumbe
except the little fingers.
a. Final Classification
b. Key Classification
c. Major classification
d. Primary classification
18. In 1901, for a period of nine (9) years, marked the official introduction of fingerprinting for
criminal identification is:

a.
b.
c.
d.

England & Wales

England
Wales
England and Wallace

19. A Ballistician or Firearms Examiner should:

a. Know everything about everything
b. Know less and less about less and less
c. Know more and more about more and more
d. Know more and more about less and less
20. There are three (3) types of firearms, the rifles, pistol and revolver. When you recovered a
rimless fired cartridge cases your suspicion is focused to:
a. Revolver
b. Shotgun
c. Pistol
d. Pistol & Rifle
21. European made firearms are usually referred to in English measurement as millimeter in
determining the caliber. When you talk of 9mm the equivalent in caliber is:
a. Caliber .22
b. Caliber .25
c. Caliber .30
d. Caliber .45
22. When you talk about 5.56 mm, the equivalent in caliber is:
a. Caliber .45
b. Caliber .38
c. Caliber .25
d. Caliber .223
23. The 7.65mm parabellum is equivalent in caliber is:
a. Caliber .45
b. Caliber .38
c. Caliber .25
d. Caliber .32
e. Caliber .30
24. Lead bullets are designed to be fired from:
a. Pistol
b. Rifle
c. Machine gun
d. Revolver
25. Jacketed and pointed bullets are also designed to be fired from:
a. Pistol
b. Revolver
c. Shotgun
d. Rifles
26. All colt firearms, EXCEPT 5.56mm M16 rifles have:
a. 4 Lands, 4 Grooves, left twist
b. 5 Lands, 5 Grooves, right twist
c. 5 Lands, 5 Grooves, left twist
d. 6 Lands, 6 Grooves, right twist
e. 6 Lands, 6 Grooves, left twist
27. Caliber .30 caroine rifle have:
a. 6 Lands, 6 Grooves, left twist
b. 6 Lands, 6 Grooves, right twist
c. 5 Lands, 6 Grooves, left twist

d. 4 Lands, 4 Grooves, right twist

e. 4 Lands, 4 Grooves, left twist
28. It is a metallic unit propelled or projected form the barrel of a gun:
a. Cartridge case
b. Propellant
c. Shell
d. Pellets or bullets
29. The pitch of rifling is the number of inches traveled by a bullet:
a. 4 complete turn
b. 2complete turn
c. 3 complete turn
d. 1 complete turn
e. 180 degree angle
30. It is a tubular metal or rolled paper wad used as a container of the bullet:
a. Rounds
b. Ammunitions
c. Bullets
d. Cartridge case or empty shell
31. The rifling of a firearm is located inside the barrel. It consists of:
a. Raised portion
b. Depressed portion
c. Lands portion
d. Lands and grooves
32. Standards needed in the examination of receipt signatures:
a. Requested signatures
b. Other receipts signature
c. Disguised signature
d. Intoxicated signatures
33. Kind of signature where the examination is hampered by a lack if truly adequate and proper
standards:
a. Intoxicated signature
b. Requested signature
c. Disguised signature
d. Old age signature
34. Writing characterized by lack of freedom of movements which gives the impression that
every stroke was made with great difficulty:
a. Restrained signature
b. Loss writing
c. Free writing movement
d. Regular writing
35. Writing characterized by too much freedom of movements and lack of regulation which are
usually tall letters:
a. Loss writing
b. Restrained writing
c. Genuine writing
d. Regulated writing
36. Handwriting characterized by a succession of awkward, independent, poorly directed and
disconnected motions:
a. Restrained handwriting
b. Lack of rhythm
c. Lack of precision
d. Lack of freedom in writing

37. Standards needed in the examination of the signature of a careless or erratic writer:
a. Collected samples
b. Requested Signature
c. Genuine standards
d. Disguised standards
38. Primary determinant of a writing speed:
a. Writing movement
b. Rhythm
c. Natural writing
d. Strokes
39. Great difference in emphasis in upstrokes and downstrokes:
a. Indicates speed writing
b. Indicates slow writing
c. Indicates good coordination
d. Indicates variation
40. No difference in emphasis in upstrokes and downstrokes:
a. Indicates speed writing
b. Indicates slow writing
c. Indicates good coordination
d. Indicates variation
41. Marked uncertainty as to the location of the dots of the small letters i, j and crosses of
the small letter t.
a. Indicates speed writing
b. Indicates slow writing
c. Indicates motor coordination
d. Indicates variation
42. Conspicuous certainty as to the location for the dots of small letters i, j and crosses of
small letter t:
a. Indicates speed writing
b. Indicates slow writing
c. Indicates motor coordination
d. Indicates variation
43. It is the reproduction on some smooth surface of the pattern of design formed by the ridges of
the end of joint of the fingers called:
a. Impression
b. Palm prints
c. Dactyloscopy
d. Typelines
44. The simplest of all fingerprint patterns is the:
a. Loop
b. Plain arch
c. Whorl
d. Tented arch
45. The appropriate center of a loop pattern is called the:
a. Delta
b. Ending ridge
c. Sufficient recurve
d. Core
46. Is one kind of fingerprint impression left on a soft material is called:
a. Visible latent prints
b. Semi visible lateen prints
c. Invisible latent prints
d. Tented arch

47. Once a fingerprint has been visualized, it must be preserved by:

a. Lefting the impression
b. Photography
c. Developing the latent prints
d. Arch
48. The light form a pinhole will form:
a. A halo effect
b. Photographic emulsion
c. An inverted image
d. An emergent ray
49. A practical application of the use of a fast lens would be at a:
a. Racetrack
b. Football game
c. Nightclub
d. Dragstrip
50. The amount of light passing through a lens is controlled by the aperture, or diaphragm. As
succeeding smaller apertures are used, the amount of light passing through the lens is:
a. Double
b. Reduced one fourth
c. Increased one fourth
d. Reduced one half
51. When focusing on all objects closer than infinity, a certain area, which extends from a point
in front of the object to a point beyond the object, will be in sharp focus. This area is
described as:
a. Hyperfocal distance
b. Focusing zone
c. Reciprocity effect
d. Dept of field
52. An advantage of focal plane shutters is:
a. A freedom from positional distortion
b. Shutter speeds up to 1/1,000 of a second
c. Shutter speed down to of a second
d. Shutter speed down to of a second
e. The ability of record infrared rays
53. Sensitivity of black and white film to certain colors is controlled by the:
a. Additional of dyes to the emulsion
b. Addition of a filter layer in certain film emulsions
c. Addition of pulverized silver to the emulsion
d. Staining dyes incorporated into the film base
54. How much light will be allowed to reach the film if the shutter speed is decreased by one
speed?
a. One quarter as much
b. One half as much
c. Twice as much
d. Shutter speed does not affect the amount of light
55. A means of correcting for poor illumination is:
a. To move closer to the object
b. Use of a relatively large lens aperture
c. Use of a lower ISO film
d. A higher shutter speed
56. A normal print would develop in which of the following manners:
a. Shadow first, then half tones, and finally highlights
b. Highlights first, then blues, and finally yellows

c. Reds first, then blues, and finally yellows

d. Prints do not develop
57. The first known polygraphist to record simultaneously is:
a. Leonarde Keeler
b. Clive Backster
c. Fred Inbau
d. Angelo Mosso
58. He developed the Zone Comparison Test technique which is considered as extremely well
designed to cover the spectrum of possibilities encountered in polygraph examination:
a. Clive Backster
b. Leonarde Keeler
c. Cesare Lombrosl
d. Vittorio Benussi
59. The instrument used by Cesare Lombroso in his experiment in detecting deception:
a. Hydrosphygmograph
b. Cardiograph
c. Sphygmanometer
d. Galvanograph
60. The scientific diagnostic instrument used to record the physiological reactions of a person
under examination:
a. Polygraph
b. Polygraphy
c. Pneumograph
d. Galvanograph
61. The component of the polygraph machine where the rolled chart paper is installed:
a. Kymograph
b. Galvanograph
c. Cardiograph
d. Pneumograph
62. The polygraph channel that records the blood pressure changes and pulse rate of the
examinee:
a. Cardigraph channel
b. Galvanograph channel
c. Pneumograph channel
d. Kymograph assembly
63. The primary purpose of the Pre Test Interview:
a. Prepare the subject for the polygraph test
b. Determine the guilt or innocence of the subject
c. Seek confession or admission of the subject
d. Convince the subject to take the test
64. Basic factors that contribute greatly in the successful use of the polygraph:
a. Well trained and experience polygraph examiner
b. Reliable instrument
c. Well planned interrogation room
d. Well trained examiner
65. Principal use of the polygraph:
a. Aid in investigation
b. Determine the facts of the case
c. Determine the guilt or innocence of the subject
d. Convince the subject or give his confession
66. Cardinal rule in chart interpretation:
a. Any deviation from norm requires an explanation

b. Any deviation in the chart recording requires an explanation

c. Good chart marking makes the interpretation easy
d. Chart interpretation means proper evaluation of the test
67. The kind of test technique where padding questions are asked:
a. Peak of tension Test
b. Backster Zone Comparison Test
c. Mixed Question Test
d. Weak relevant question
68. Type of question that deals with a known fact about which the subject cannot lie in polygraph
examination:
a. Irrelevant question
b. Mixed question
c. Relevant question
d. Padding question
69. A question establishing subjects norm in polygraph examination:
a. Irrelevant question
b. Mixed question
c. Relevant question
d. Padding question
70. Color zone of irrelevant question under Backster Zone Comparison Test:
a. Yellow
b. Red
c. Green
d. Orange
71. The test technique where the examinee answers the questions silently:
a. Silent answer test
b. Silent stimulation test
c. Silent question test
d. Silent control test
72. The accuracy of the polygraph examination results is dependent on:
a. The competency of the polygraph examiner
b. A well trained and experienced investigator
c. Adequacy of the facts of the case
d. Psychological response of the subject
73. The most acceptable emotional factor that must be present in the subject of the polygraph test
in order for truth or deception can be interpreted objectively in the chart:
a. Fear
b. Nervousness
c. Anger
d. Anxiety
74. The subject told the polygraph examiner that I am telling the truth, but I am nervous about
taking the examination. How does the instrument tell the difference between nervousness
and lying?
a. A truthful person may be nervous because he is afraid of the unknown
b. An untruthful person may be nervous because he is afraid of what he knows to be
true.
c. Nervousness does not prevent the polygraph examiner from distinguishing between
truth and untruth.
d. A truthful person may be nervous
75. These persons should not normally be examined for polygraph examination, instead they
should be referred to concerned agencies:
a. Psychotic persons
b. Neurotic persons

c. Persons suffering anxiety

d. Persons with phobia
76. It is analytical procedure of identifying a piece of tissue by extracting and analyzing DNA
found in them:
a. DNA profiling
b. DNA typing
c. DNA fingerprint
d. Genetic fingerprinting
e. All of these
77. DNA means:
a. Deoxyribonucleic acid
b. Ribonucleic acid
c. Di ribonuclei acid
d. Mitochondrial ribonucleic acid
78. DNA is a chemical substance found in all cells and individual has a unique DNA and only
_________ share the same DNA pattern:
a. Mother and child
b. Father and child
c. Identical twins
d. Mother and father
79. DNA fragments can be replicated in the laboratory in a process knows as:
a. Polymerzation
b. Polymerase chain reaction
c. Polymorphism
d. DNA identification
80. Biological evidence member for the DNA analysis:
a. Blood and blood stains
b. Semen and seminal stains
c. Saliva and buccal swabbings
d. All of the above cases
e. Hair with follicible or root
81. Line up cases wherein DNA analysis can be help of:
a. Sexual assault cases
b. Paternity cases
c. Murder and/ or homicide
d. Identification of remains in mass disaster case
82. Saliva could be found in the following for DNA analysis:
a. Cigarette butts/filters
b. Tips of glasses and bottles
c. Tips of plastic straws
d. Stamps and seals of letter envelopes
e. All of the above statements
83. DNA could be isolated from evidentiary samples even with though a minute of weight of
a. 2 x 10 -9 gram
b. 0.000000002 grams
c. 2 nanograms
d. All of these weights are the same
84. Hair for DNA analysis could be:
a. Ten pieces of hair
b. Five pieces of hair
c. One piece of hair with follicle or root
d. Two pieces of hair

85. DNA analysis has advantage over conventional serological methods because of the
following:
a. DNA could be isolated from material that is months or even years old
b. DNA can be recovered from a wide variety of biological sources
c. DNA could be replicated in the laboratory
d. DNA shows greater variability from one individual to the next
86. In all sexual assault cases, DNA typing is done by first extracting the vaginal swab, the
sample from the victim and the suspect. The DNA patterns are then compared and if they are
different, then this means:
a. The suspect could not possibly be the rapist
b. The suspect could be the rapist
c. The suspect DNA was not present on the vaginal swab
d. All if these statements are applicable
e. None of these statements are true
87. The science that deals with the study and the application of chemical principles in solutions
to problems that arises in connection with the administration of justice:
a. Forensic medicine
b. Forensic ballistic
c. Questioned document
d. Forensic chemistry
e. Dactyloscopy
88. The faithful reproduction of an impression made on a soft surface by the application of a
casting material
a. Casting
b. Impression
c. hardening
d. paraffin
e. moulage
89. The test to determine whether blood is human or not:
a. Benzidine
b. Takayama
c. Florence

d. Precipitin

e. Guiac

90. A slender thread like outgrowth from the appendages of the skin which occurs on the
human body:
a. Eyebrows
b. Eyelids
c. beard
d. hair
e. scalp
91. Willful and malicious burning of a building
a. Robbery
b. Felony
c. homicide
92. The most important part of a hair shaft:
a. Tip
b. cortex
c. medulla

d. arson

d. pigment

e. suicide

e. cuticle

93. The restoration of tampered serial numbers can be done by the use of _________
a. Benzidine solution
b. Saline solution
c. Etching solution
d. Hydrogen peroxide
e. Sulfuric Acid
94. The super cooled liquid possessing high viscosity
a. Fiber
b. clay
c. glass
d. saline

e. water

95. The tail of spermatozoa is _______ times longer than its head.
a. Fifty
b. ten
c. twenty
d. five
e. hundred
96. Paraffin test on living subject is good only for ________days/hours.
a. One/24 hours
c. Two/48 hours
e. seven/168 hours
b. Three/72 hours
d. Five/120 hours
97. If 4 quarts are equal to one gallon and there are 6 quarts of blood in man.
a. 0.5
b. 1.5
c. 1.0
d. 2.0
e. 3.0
98. Animal hair has _____medulla.

a. Wider

b. fine

c. narrow

99. A test for seminal stain is _______

a. Florence b. Benzidine c. Precipitin

d. long

e. short

d. Takayama e. Guaiac

100.Seminal stains exhibit ________glow under ultra violet light.

a. Bright yellow
b.Reddish brown
e. Greenish
b. Bluish bright
d. Purple red
101.Science which deals with study of poison, its effect and cure.
a. Serology
b. Toxicology
c. Geology
d. Psychology

e. Ecology

102.These are substances which causes local distress of tissues and characterized by nausea,
vomiting and great local distress.
a. Sedatives
b. neurotics
c. corrosives d. irritants
e. narcotics
103.It is continued used of drugs necessary to maintain ones normal sense of well being
a. Tolerance
c. Habituation
e. Injection
b. Drug dependence
d. Addiction
104.It is developed in a person who often takes a particular drug and this is characterized by a
need to increase the dose order to obtain the desired dose.
a. Addiction
b. allergy
c. asthma
d. antibody
e. asthenics
105.Any substance which neutralizes a poison or otherwise counteracts or opposes its effects.
a. Antibody
b. antidote
c.Additives d. tetanics
e. acids
106.Substances which induce vomiting are known as
a. Chronics
b. emetics
c. anaesthetics
107.Gunpowder maybe determined by ______ test.
a. Takayama
c. Florence
b. Diphenylamine
d. Barberio

d. tetanics e. narcotics
e. Wagenhaar

108.Mercury fulminate is an example of a ________ explosive.

a. Primary b. high
c. smokeless d. blackpowder

e. low

109.A preliminary/chemical test for blood which is very sensitive.

a. Barberio b.Benzidine c. Takayama d. Florence
e. Van Deer
110.The determination of the approximate time of firing of the gun may be done by
a. Microscopic examination
b. Examining the target
c. Examining the paraffin test
d. Examining of the gunpowder residue of the gun
e. Chromatographic examination
111. The sudden breaking apart or shattering into pieces brought about by internal pressure.
a. Combustion
c. oxidation
e. exclusion
b. Sublimation
d. explosion
112.The person allowed to give an opinion or conclusion on a given scientific evidence
a. Investigator
c. Defense lawyer
e. expert witness
b. Prosecutor
d. ordinary witness
113.The best methods of determining the presence of spermatozoa is ______examination.
a. Physical
c. chromatographic
e. spectrographic
b. Chemical
d. microscopic
114.It is used as a reinforcement to the paraffin cast taken from hands
a. Sticks
b. paper
c. cardboard
d. metal sheets

e. cotton

115.The dirty grimy appearance observes around a gunshot perforation if a gun is fired at a
distance of 2 to 8 inches.
a. Smudging
b. tattooing c. burning
d. blackening e .singeing
116.A hollow projectile of iron generally spherical containing explosive fired by a time fuse
a. Firearm b. bomb
c. picrate
d. glycerol nitrate
e. ammunition
117.A kind of smokeless powder which consists of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin
a. Axite
b. ballistics c. cordite
d. amberite
e. graphite
118.The presence of ______in the barrel of a gun indicates it was fired recently.
a. Chlorides b. sulfides
c. oxides
d. nitrates
e. bromides
119.Drugs are classified as prohibited where marijuana is an example while _____is a regulated
drug.
a. Opium
b. heroin
c. morphine d. codeine
e. methamphetamine
120.The visible results when gunpowder residue is tested:
a. Blue smears
c. greenish brown specks
b. Blue smudges
d. black specks

e. deep blue specks

121.A good casting material :

a. Must be readily fluid
b. Must be tough
c. Must harden rapidly to a rigid mass
d. Must be easy to apply
e. All of there statement apply
122.An antidote which act on the poison through a chemical reaction and yield non toxic
product:
a. Mechanical
c. chemical
e. aged
b. Physical
d. analgesics
123.The tip of the hair will inform the investigator on whether it was:
a. Pulled by force c. recently dyed
e. electrical
b. Newly cut
d. fallen naturally
124.The number of spermatozoa in a single discharged of a healthy man is:
a. 400 500 M
c. 300 400 M
e. 200 440 M
b. 140 150 M
d. 200 300 M
125.A type M father and a type N mother would bear a type _____child.
a. M
b. N
c. MN
d. MN,N
e. MN,M
126.Moulage is a better evidence of a shoeprint on a soft surface than a photograph because one
can observe the :
a. Length and width of the shoe
b. Width and depth of the print
c. Length, trademark and design of the shoe
d. Length, width and depth of the shoeprint
e. Length and depth of the print
127.The rotten egg odor emanating from decomposing body is:
a. Chlorine
c. ammonia
e. carbon monoxide
b. Hydrogen
d. carbon dioxide
128.When we need to know to whether the paper is NOT EASILY ORN, the test applied is:
a. Microscopic test
c. accelerating aging test
e. bursting test
b. Opacity test
d. bursting strength test
129.An accused in a paternity case is group while the mother is Group A, the group of the child
is:

a. Group A
b. Group B

c. Group AB
d. Group O

e. all of the above

130.The most frequent motive in the commission of arson

a. Intimidation
c. revenge
b. Profit
d. conceal another crime

e. homicide

131.When a person is drunk, he is given a strong, black coffee. What kind of antidote was given
to the person?
a. Chemical
b. demulcent c. cathartic
d. physiologicale e. emetic
132.An accidental fire may be due to:
a. Spontaneous combustion
b. Natural explosion

c. lightning
d. overload circuit

e. earthquake

133.Sometimes even a small and harmless dose of a give substance can still be a poison to some
individuals. Why?
a. Because it is absorbed by the blood
b. Because it acted chemically
c. Because it caused noxious effect
d. Because of idiosyncrasy
134.In an arson case the following were noted by witnesses. What could it be due to if the color
of the smoke is white:
a. Phosphorus
b. petroleum c. straw and hay
d. plastic
e. sodium
135.The color of the smoke is black:
a. Vegetable materials
c. Phosphorus
e. Alcohol
b. Chlorine
d. Petroleum and its products
136.The most important application of metallurgy in criminal investigation:
a. Bomb
b. restoration c. explosive d. jewelry
e. counterfeit coins
137.It is the oldest known explosive
a. Black powder
b. TNT

c. dynamite

d. mercury fulminate e. C4

138.When fire is caused by lightning. What indications are observed?

a. Smell of ozone and scattered building materials
b. Burned materials fall in place
c. Blue flame and intense heat
d. Blue flame and intense heat
e. Garlic odor and purple red flame
139.It is an impression, cut, scratch. Gauge or abrasion that is made when a tool is brought into
contact with an object.
a. Tool mark
b. tire mark c. impression d. post mark e. friction mark
140.The isolation of volatile poisons id by distillation with or without steam. Why do some
volatile poisons not require steam to isolate them?
a. Because they would be easier to isolate
b. Because they have an inorganic composition
c. Because they do not decompose at temperature higher than 100 degrees Celsius
d. Because they can absorb heat faster than when steam is used
e. Because they hardened easily
141.The value of soil as an evidence depends upon wholly on
a. Location it was collected
b. Various characteristics over the surface of the earth
c. Fixed composition over the surface of the earth
d. The environmental conditions it was subjected to:
e. The determination source

142.What is true about coins?

a. Struck coins are made by using molds
b. Struck coins are more difficult to detect than cast coins when well executed
c. The determination of the ring when coin is tossed on hard surface
d. The determination of hardness by biting is of great scientific importance
e. Struck coins could used at certain periods only
143.An investigator who recovered a fire bullet from the crime scene will request to determine
a. Owner of the firearm
b. Model of the firearm
c. Caliber type
d. Manufacturer of the firearms
144.Paraffin test is used to:
a. Detect whether a witness is telling the truth
b. Detect whether the deceased person was poisoned
c. Estimate the approximate time of death
d. Determine whether the suspect fired a gun recently
e. To determine the presence of rifling
145.Special branch of psychology which seeks to identify the criminal by analyzing the
personality traits of the perpetrator as shown by his modus operandi, choice of victims,
delivery of the blows, and other peculiarities.
a. Victimology
c. Psychopathology
e. Astrology
b. Profiling
d. Psychiatry
146.Invented a meniscus lens:
a. William England
b. William Henry Fox Talbtot

c. William Wollaston
d. Frederick Scott Archer

147.Used a glass negative coated with albumen based emulsion:

a. Thomas Wedgewood
c. Carl Scheele
b. Joseph Niepce
d. Oskar Barnack
148.Used a dry plate coated with gelatin coated with silver bromide.
a. Richard Maddox
c. Frederick Archer
b. Leon Warnerke
d. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
149.The chemist who found out that light from the violet end of the spectrum darkened the silver
chloride faster than light from other colors.
a. Johann Schulze
c. Edweard Muybridge
b. Carl Scheele
d. Hannibal Goodwin
150.Invented the calotype:
a. William England
b. William Henry Fox Talbot

c. William Wollaston
d. Frederick Scott Archer

151.Collaborated with Louis Daguerre in making the Daguerre type:

a. Joseph Niepce
c. both a & b
b. Isidore Niepce
d. Claude Niepce de St. Victor
152.Filed a patent for celluloid roll film in 1887:
a. Hannibal Goodwin
c. William England
b. Edward Bausch
d. Leon Warnerke
153.Produced a negative photograph using paper sensitized with silver chloride:
a. William Fox Talbot
c. William England
b. William Wollaston
d.Thomas Wedgewood
154.Made the first photograph:
a. Thomas Wedgewood
b. Sir Humprey Davy

c. Johann Schulze
d. Jospeh Nicepore Niepce

155.Invented the collodion wet plate process:

a. Frederick Archer
c. Leon Warnerke
b. William Talbot
d. William Wollaston
156.Made the focal plane shutter with variable aperture:
a. William England
c. William Wollaston
b. William Henry Fox Talbot
d. Frederick Scott Archer
157.Discovered the light changes the nature of chemical substance:
a. Sir Humphry Davy
c. George Eastman Kodak
b. Sir John Herschel
d. Johann Schulze
158.Made a roll film on paper:
a. Frederick Archer
b. William Talbot

c. Leon Warnerke
d. Hannibal Goodwin

159.Photographed the action of galloping horses in 1878:

a. Leon Warnerke
c. Richard Maddox
b. Eadweard Muybridge
d. Oskar Barnack
160.Mediums that merely slow the speed of light but allows it to pass freely.
a. Translucent
c. luminous
b. Opaque
d. transparent
161.A light tight container used to hold light sensitive materials:
a. Shutter
c. body
b. Aperture
d. lens
162.Occurs whenever an object changes the direction of a light ray but does not allow it to pass
through it:
a. Refraction
c. radiation
b. Transmission
d. reflection
163.When an atom in a light source is changed physically, it emits a photon which behaves like
waves:
a. Radiation
c. absorption
b. Light
d. photons
164.A single shaped piece of optical glass or molded plastic designed to gather and focus light
rays in a camera to form an image of a subject on film.
a. Glass
c. diaphragm
b. Lens
d. shutter
165.Objects are visible because they reflect light from other light source.
a. Non luminous
c. luminous
b. Reflection
d. light
166.The distance from peak to an adjacent trough:
a. Wavelength
c. nanometers
b. Frequency
d. milli microns
167.Objects that divert or absorb light, but allow no light to pass through.
a. Opaque
c. translucent
b. Transparent
d. refraction
168.The bending of light when passing obliquely from one medium to a medium of different
density:
a. Transmission
c. reflection
b. Refraction
d. absorption
169.Objects that emit radiations within the visible spectrum:
a. Luminous
c. continuous radiation

b. Natural light

d. artificial light

170.The number that indicates the size of a lens opening:

a. Len opening
c. both a& b
b. Aperture
d. focal length
171.Use same lens for picture taking and viewing:
a. Box camera
c. SLR
b. Digital camera
d.TLR
172.The number of waves per unit of time:
a. Wavelength
b. Milli microns

c. frequency
d. nanometers

173.The primary colors of light:

a. Red, blue, & green
b. Red, yellow &b blue

c. cyan, yellow & magenta

d. green, blue & cyan

174.Electronic flash was developed in:

a. 1938
b. 1937

c. 1936
d. 1935

175.A mechanism that opens and closes within the camera provide the time interval necessary for
exposure:
a. Shutter speed
c. aperture
b. Shutter
d. diaphragm
176.Time intervals are called:
a. Shutter speed
b. Seconds

c. film speed
d. lens speed

177.Represents the ratio of the focal length of the lens to the diameter of the lens:
a. Aperture
c. f/
b. Shutter speed
d. both a & c
178.The amount of light that you allow to reach the film:
a. Overexposure
c. underexposure
b. Exposure
d. none of the above
179.The bending of light when passing obliquely from one medium to a medium of different
density:
a. Reflection
c. opaque
b. Refraction
d. transmission
180.The sensitivity of film to light :
a. Lens speed
b. Film speed

c. shutter speed
d. ASA

181.The arithmetic rating for film sensitivity :

a. ASA
c. ISO
b. DIN
d. all of the above
182.The speed of light :
a. 186, 000 m/s
b. 185, 000 m/s

c.184, 000 m/s

d. 183, 000 m/s

183.Magenta is the combination of the colors:

a. Blue green
c. blue red
b. Blue violet
d. blue yellow
184.The logarithmic rating for film sensitivity:
a. ASA
c. ISO

b. DIN

d. all of the above

185.The human eye can detect wavelengths between:

a. 400 500
c. 400 700
b. 400 600
d. 400 800
186.The logarithmic and arithmetic rating for film sensitivity:
a. ASA
c. ISO
b. DIN
d. all of the above
187.The color red in the visible spectrum is within the wavelength of:
a. 400 500
c. 600 700
b. 500 - 600
d. 400 700
188.Cyan is the combination of the colors:
a. Blue red
b. Blue green

c. blue violet
d. green red

189.Photography was coined by:

a. Sir John Herschel
b. Joseph Niepce

c. Sir Humphry Davy

d. William Henry Fox Talbot

190.Yellow is the combination of the colors:

a. Blue red
c. blue violet
b. Blue green
d. green red
191.The color green in the visible spectrum is within the wavelength of:
a. 400 500
c. 600 700
b. 500 - 600
d. 400 700
192. In the electromagnetic spectrum, ultraviolet rays between:
c. .01 30
c. 30 400
d. 600 700
d. 400 700
193.The color blue in the visible spectrum is within the wavelength of:
a. 400 500
c. 600 700
b. 500 - 600
d. 400 700
194.The only from of radiation visible to the naked eye:
a. Heat
c. radio waves
b. Light
d. microwave
195.The determining factor of how much amount of light, a flash unit will discharge when fired is
known the:
a. Guide number
c. Emulsion speed
b. ASA rating
d. Shutter speed
196.A witness who by reason of his special technical training or experience is permitted to
express an opinion regarding the issue or certain aspect of the issue that is involved in a
lawsuit is best describe as a:
a. Document examiner
b. Handwriting expert
c. Expert witness
d. Forensic scientist
197.A measuring test plate placed over typewritten words and abnormal horizontal and vertical
alignment and photographed through the plate to is best described as :
a. Letter slant and comparison test plate
b. Type writing measuring test plates
c. Type angle plate
d. Letter frequency test plate

198.DNA analysis has advantage over conventional serological methods because of the
following:
a. DNA could be isolated from material that is months or even years old
b. DNA can be recovered from wide variety of biological resources
c. DNA could be replicated in the laboratory
d. DNA shows greater variability from one individual to the net
e. All of the above
199.Which of the following identifies a cartridge case as having been fired from a particular
firearm?
a. Extractor marks
b. Firing pin impression
c. Ejector marks
d. Magazine lip marks
200.Yellow filter blocks?
a. Red
b. blue

c. green
d. indigo

201.Cyan filter blocks?

a. Blue
b. red

c. yellow
d. magenta

202.Which of the following is not considered to be one of the primary colors of light:
a. Blue
c. green
b. Yellow
d. red
203.The film with the widest range of sensitivity to the different energies of electro magnetic
spectrum is the:
a. X- ray
c. Orthochromatic
b. Infra red
d. Panchromatic
204.The processing step where the image formed in the film or paper is made is at the:
a. Stop batch
c. developer
b. Bleacher
d. fixer
205.Form asphyxia whereby the free exchange of air in the lungs is prevented by the immobility
of the chest and the abdomen due to external pressure or crush injury:
a. Compression asphyxia
b. Asphyxia by breathing irrespirable gases
c. Asphyxia by suffocation
d. Asphyxia by strangulation
206.In filing a case, some of the important documents needed are:
a. Death certificate of the victim
b. Autopsy report
c. Sworn statement of the witness
d. All of the above
207.Investigators use the following EXCEPT one in collection pieces of evidence found in the
crime scene:
a. Handkerchief
c. stick
b. Ball pen
d. his hand
208.The procedure includes the examination of the scene of the crime, the identification of the
body, the external examinations, such as toxicological analysis, which the case may require
and it only performs by a MEDICO LEGAL is called:
a. Preliminary examination
b. Custodial examination
c. Post mortem examination
d. Inquest proceeding

209.Who are the first persons to develop the first relevant irrelevant test technique which is also
known as RI theory:
a. Larson and Keeler
c. Reid and Inbau
b. Mosso & Marson
d. Lombroso and Benussi
210.Which of the following is not considered as referring to the light gathering power of the lens:
a. Relative aperture
c. F - numbers
b. Astigmatism
d. Diaphragm opening
211.Which of the following is not an indicator for emulsion speed of a film?
a. ASA rating
c. DIN rating
b. GNP rating
d. ISO rating
212.One of the known CLASS CHARACTERISTICS is the:
a. Twist rifling
c. type of rifling
b. Make of firearm
d. forward twist

e. terminal

213.The actual bore diameter of a 12 gauge shotgun is:

a. .550 inch
c. .615 inch
b. .662 inch
d. .725 inch
214.Designed to probe whether the polygraph subject possesses information regarding the
identity of the offender, location of evidence or other secondary element of the office under
investigation:
a. Evidence connecting question
b. Knowledge question
c. Control question
d. Interrogation
215.The galvanograph records the :
a. Breathing of the suspect
b. Blood pressure and pulse rate
c. The skin resistance of the subject
d. None of the above
216.The principal active component of opium. It comes in write crystalline powder and light
tablets:
a. Heroin
c. morphine
b. Cocaine
d. none of the above
217.Are drugs that relieve pain and often induce sleep:
a. Narcotics
c. stimulants
b. Sedatives
d. none of the above