SEMI-FINAL

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FORENSIC CHEMISTRY

Test I (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

Instructions: Encircle the letter of your answer. No changing/erasure of answers.

1. Which of the following is not a Natural cause of a. Low Explosives

fire? b. Primary Explosives
a. Lightning c. High Explosives
b. Spontaneous combustion arising from the
d. None
storage of combustible materials in poorly
ventilated places.
c. Children playing matches. 7. Carbon-nitri (C-NO2) group is an example of
d. Sun rays focused on glasses which may ________.
serve as a convex lens
A. Inorganic Explosives
2. Dynamites is an example of what explosive? B. Organic Explosives
a. Low C. Low Explosives
b. Primary D. None Explosives
c. High
d. None 8. These are salt-containing explosives.

3. These are low burning and used mainly as propellants Inorganic Explosives
like black powder and smokeless powder. B. Organic Explosives
a. Low Explosives C. Low Explosives
b. Primary Explosives D. None Explosives
c. High Explosives
d. None 9. Tritonal is an example of____________.
4. What do you call those materials which denotes or
A.Military Explosives
explodes when subjected to shock or heat?
B.Industrial Explosives
a. Blasting cap C. Commercial Explosives
b. TNT D. None of thse
c. Dynamite
d. Gunpowder
10. Grenade is an example of____________.

5. This kind of explosive is extremely sensitive to deto A.Military Explosives

nation by heat , shock, friction and impact. B.Industrial Explosives
C. Commercial Explosives
a. Low Explosives
D. None of thse
b. Primary Explosives
c. High Explosives
11. It is a violent bursting or expansion caused by the
d. None
release of mechanical, chemical or nuclear energy from
a confined area.
6. These explosives have very fast or high detonating
rate like dynamites, TNT and Cyclonite. A. Implosion
B. Explosion B. Mechanical Test
C. Combustion C. Physical Test
D. Detonation
D. Color test
12. The following are some of the damage Mechanism ,
Except; 19. Chromatography is what type of test.
a. Screening test
a.Brisance b. Preliminary test
b. sensitivity c. Confirmatory test
c.Selectivity d. Preliminary test
d. Shock wave
20. Trained animals is one of the method of examination
in _________.
13. A wave produced when an ordnance is detonated
underwater.
A. Vapor Density Method
A. Air shock B. .Bulk Density Method
B. Earth shock C. Laboratory Examination
C. Water shock D. Technical Examinaton
d.Fire shock

14. A wave produced when an explosive detonates 21. FIRE defined as

underground producing an earthquake.
a. a rapid, self-sustaining oxidation process
A. Air shock accompanied by the evolution of heat and light
B. Earth shock of varying intensity
C. Water shock b. an active chemical reaction that takes place
D.Fire shock between fuel, heat and oxygen in the form of
light and noticeable heat
15. A system used to detect the odors smelled through c. a chemical reaction; the rapid oxidation of a fuel
producing heat and light.
the nose.
d. All of the foregoing
a. Auditory
b. Olfactory
22. The willful and malicious burning of all kinds of
c. Sight
buildings and structures including personal properties
d. None of these
a. Robbery
b. Malicious Burning
16. Olfactory system is an example of ________.
c. Arson
a. Vapor Density Method d. Firing
b .Bulk Density Method
C. Laboratory Examination 23. Fire cause by lighting is ____________.
D. Technical Examinaton a. Intentional
b. Arson
17. X-ray Imaging is an example of_______. c. Natural
a.Vapor Density Method d. Accidental
b.Bulk Density Method
C. Laboratory Examination 24. Represented by the fuel, heat, oxidizing agent, and
D. Technical Examinaton the chemical reaction. It usually manifest the flaming
mode of fire.
18. It is an ocular inspection, weighing the specimen and
a. Fire Tetrahedron c. Fire
sampling.?
b. Fire Triangle d. Combustion
A. Chemical test
 d. Class D

25. Fire triangle is composed of the following, except; 32. Can a water used as extinguishing agent to a fire
caused by ordinary solid materials such as wood, paper,
A. Fuel fabrics, etc.
B. Heat
C. Air A. Yes
D. Oxidant B.Maybe
C. NO
26. A burning reaction in which a substance combines d. It depends
with a gas.
A .Oxidation
B. Combustion 33. The initial stage of fire .
c. Explosion a. Incipient phase
D.Implosion b. .Free burning phase
c. Smoldering
d. Final phase
27. A chemical reaction where a substance absorbs heat 34. A final phase of burning wherein flame ceases but
energy. dense smoke and heat completely fill the confined room
A. Endothermic Reaction a. Incipient phase
B. Exothermic Reaction b. Free burning phase
C. Chemical Reaction c. Smoldering
D. Mechanical Reaction d. Preliminary phase

35. A heat transfer within solids or between contacting

28. A chemical reaction where a substance released solids .
heat energy. a. Conduction
A. Endothermic Reaction b. Convection
B. Exothermic Reaction C. Radition
C. Chemical Reaction d. None
D. Mechanical Reaction
36. A Heat transfer by the movement of liquids or
gasses, a distribution of heat by circulating medium.
29. Which of the following is not an accidental fire?
a. Conduction
a. Carelessly discarded cigarettes - b. Convection
b. Overheating, spark and electrical defects – C. Radition
c. Sun rays focused on glasses which may serve
d. None
as a convex lens
d. Children playing matches -
37. What extinguishing agent can be use to fire caused
by metal fire such as magnesium (white element burning
30. Flammable liquids such as gasoline, lube oil, with dazzling light), sodium (a silver white metallic
kerosene, paint thinner, etc. element), etc
a. Class A
b. Class B A .water (all agents)
c. Class C B. foam
d. Class D C. carbon dioxide
D .special powder
31. Electrical appliances; causes electric shock
38. A primary fracture resembles the spokes of a wheel.
a. Class A
b. Class B A. Radial
c. Class C B. Circular
C. Concentric (47-50).4 points
D. Triangular
Situation:

Trilling feloniously killed browner by shooting. In

39. A secondary Fracture having appearance of circles
order to conceal the crime, Trilling placed the corpse
around the point of impact.
inside a building and set fire to the body. The fire
A. Radial suddenly propagated and burned the building itself.
B. Circular What is the crime committed by Trilling? Explain.
C. Concentric
D. Triangular

40. What is the outermost covering the different parts of

the body except palm of the hand and sole of the foot.

A. Skin
B. Tissues
C. Hair
D. Nails

41. What is the position of the shooter if the heavy

flakings or chippings was found on the left side of the
glass?
A. Perpendicular shot
B. angle from the Right
C. angle from the Lelft
D. Angle from the back of victim

42. What is the position of the shooter if the heavy

flakings or chippings was found on the right side of the
glass?
A. Perpendicular shot
B. angle from the Right
C. angle from the Lelft
D. Angle from the back of victim

43. The central cannal of the hair.

A. Cuticle
B. Cortex
C. Medulla
D.Root

TEST II- ESSAY

(44-46). 3 points
Why are tool marks important in the crime scene
investigation?