FINAL

Name:_____________________________ Course and Year___________________

Date:_______________________________ Year:____________________________

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

1. 1. This is a document in which some issues have been raised or is under scrutiny is
called___________.
a. Obliterated document
b. Forged document
c. Illegal document
d. Questioned document
2. This division of Questioned Document Examination deals in finding the authorship of
a writing; more difficult procedure requiring a long study and experience.
a. Criminalistic Examination
b. Handwriting Identification
c. Criminalistic Identification
d. Handwriting Examination
3. It is the oldest ink material known and used by ancient Egyptians. It is called?
a. Nigrosine
b. Phosphorus
c. Carbon
d. Indulin ink
4. What refers to the art determining the character the person by the analysis of
handwriting?
a. Holography
b. Calligraphy
c. Graphicology
d. Graphology
5. What is the most common form of questioned document?
a. Typewritten
b. Money
c. Signature
d. Banknote
6. The type of forgery which is made when the writer exerts no much efforts to effects
resemblance or facsimile between the forged and the genuine signature is called?
a. Trace
b. None of these
c. Simulated
d. Simple
7. It is the modern term of handwriting specimen personally from a known source that
can be used by the examiner as basis for his ID or non-ID of the writing found in the
questioned document?
a. Exemplar
b. Collected standard
c. Handwriting standard
d. Sample
8. In questioned signature document examinations, the number of standard specimen
required is at least how many?
a. 10
b. 4
c. 5
d. 7
9. Romina Mondragon, found a suspected check. He never remember issuing that
check. When the investigator examined, he found the same size and individual
characteristics. As an investigator, what will be his conclusion?
a. Genuine, because they have the same size and characteristics
b. Forged, because no two person write exactly alike
c. Genuine, because he cannot remember who issued the check
d. None of the above
10. A document written entirely in the handwriting of the person whose signature it
bears.
a. Holograph
b. Hologram
c. Hemograph
d. Helogram
11. Most crime laboratories require that new Questioned Document Examiner
candidates possess
a. post-graduate degree
b. master’s thesis
c. baccalaureate degree
d. doctoral dissertation
12. In handling document evidence, Documents maybe folded if it is too large.
a. true
b. False
 c. maybe true or false
d. neither true nor false
13. This class of QDE covers detection of forgeries, alterations and obliterations of
questioned document.
a. criminalistic examination
b. criminalistic identification .
c. handwriting examination
d. handwriting identification
14. The best special lighting that can be used in detecting obliterated or chemically
erased writings and charred document is
a. ultra-violet
b. x-ray
c. infrared
d. sunlight
15. In questioned signature document examinations, the number of standard specimen
required is at least how many?
a. Ten (10)
b. Three (3)
c. Seven (7)
d. Four (4)
16. He was credited as the Father of Questioned Document.
a. Albert Osborne
b. Alphonse Bertillon
c. Dr. Wilson Harrison
d. Sir Edward Richard Henry
17. It is a branch of psychology involving the interpretation of the personality of an
individual through their handwriting?
a. Graphodynamics
b. Graphology
c. Graphometricss
d. Graphics
18. He was the inventor of the first practical fountain pen .
a. John H. Loud
b. Hiram Maxim
c. Lewis E. Waterman
d. Samuel Colt
19. This is the very first kind of ink used in executing documents.
a. iron gall
b. carbon
c. sympathetic ink
d. stamp pad ink
20. It is any document that has become darkened and brittle through exposure to fire or
excessive heat.
a. Black Document
b. Charred Document
c. Green Document
d. None of these
21. A hand -held device for writing that consist of lead as marking substance.
a. Quill pens
b. Steel Nibs
c. Ballpoint pen
d. Pencil
22. It made from the wing feathers of the goose and swan.
a. Quill pens
b. Steel Nibs
c. Ballpoint pen
d. Pencil
23. It made from plant papyrus. Developed by Egyptian.
a. Parchment
b. Papyrus
c. Charta
d. Cartouche
24. It made from animal skins primarily of sheep, calves or goats.
a. Parchment
b. Papyrus
c. Charta
d. Cartouche
25. Paper making is one of the inventions by ___________.
a. Spanish
b. Japanese
c. Chinese
d. Filipinos
26. Handwriting which joined up and in lower case is known as:
a. Cursive
b. Graphic
c. Disconnected
d. None of these
27. The art of ugly l writing is known as

a. Drafting
b. Calligraphy
c. Art appreciation
 d. Cacography
28. What refers to the art determining the character the person by the analysis of
handwriting?
a. Holography
b. Calligraphy
c. Graphicology
d. Graphology
29. A document that is executed by a private person without intervention of notary
public what kind of document?
a. Private
b. Personal
c. Official
d. Public
30. . A document that is executed by a notary public ?
a. Private
b. Personal
c. Official
d. Public

31. . A document that is executed by a public person by reason of his office.

a. Personal
b. Official
c. Public
d. Private
32. 8. A document that is ore than 30 years is called _______?
a. Personal
b. Official
c. Public
d. Ancient
33. . A document that is executed for commercial and mercantile laws .
a. Personal
b. Official
c. Commercial
d. Public
34. This is defined as a result of a very complicated series of acts, a combination of
certain form of visible mental and muscular habit acquired by long continued
painstaking effort.

a. Document
b. Signature
c. Writing
 d. Simulated Writing
35. Handwriting is also known as brain writing.
a. True
b. .False
c. Partly True
d. Partly false

36. It is the combination of a basic design of letters and writing movements.

a. A.WRITING
b. B. Signature
c. C. Certificate
d. System of writing

37. 13. It is any writing executed normally without any attempt to control or alters its
identifying habits.
a. Simulated writing
b. Disguised Writing
c. Natural Writing
d. None of the above

38. 14. It is a way of writing which the writer deliberately tries to alter his usual writing
habits in the hope of hiding his identity

a. Simulated writing
b. Disguised Writing
c. Natural Writing
d. None of the above

39. A type of writing in which the writer copy the handwriting characteristics of another
person.

a. Simulated writing
b. Disguised Writing
c. Natural Writing
d. None of the above

40. It is any disconnected style of writing in which the letters are written separately.
a. Cursive
b. Hand Lettering
c. Block Style
 d. Disconnected

41. What term do we use when the writer sign a document as an acknowledgment?

a. Acceptance
b. Exemplars
c. Opinion
d. Signature
42. . It is the study of early writing.
a. Graffiti
b. Paleography
c. Petrograms
d. Petroglyphs

43. This means “ to cut into the rock”.

a. Graffiti
b. Paleography
c. Petrograms
d. Petroglyphs

44. This writing drawn or printed on the surface of rocks.

a. Graffiti
b. Paleography
c. Petrograms
d. Petroglyphs

45. It refers to handwriting or images on the walls or surface of a public are such
buildings, parks and toilet.
a. Graffiti
b. Paleography
c. Petrograms
d. Petroglyphs

46. Paleography came from the greek word Plaios which means _______ and graphien
means “to write”.
a. Beautiful
b. New
c. Old
d. UGLY

47. This type of writing style is capitalized or printed.

 a. Cursive
b. Script
c. Block style.
d. Disconnected

48. . This type of writing style is disconnected style.

a. Cursive
b. Script
c. Block style.
d. New
49. SPO2 Fina Bañaga, a questioned document expert was assigned to investigate a public
document by Mayor Drei Montilibano. SPO2 Bañaga concluded that the suspect tried to
retouch the portion on the amount of some materials to be purchased including the signture
of Mayor Montilibano in order to look genuine. What technique do you think the suspect
applied?
a. Retracing
b. Patching
c. Restoring
d. Erasing

50. A writing motion that uses the elbow as pivot.

a. Finger Movement
b. Forearm Movement
c. Hand Movement
d. Whole arm Movement

51. Segments of writing obscured by the application of an appropriate substance such as a

correction fluid are known as:
a. Corrections
b. Obliterations
c. Erasures
d. Embellishments

52. How do you call the average force with which the pen contacts the paper and may be
estimated from an examination of the writing?
a. Pen lift
b. Pen pressure
c. Pen emphasis
d. Pen nibs

53. 5. How do you call the ruled or imaginary line in which the letter rests?
a. Stationed
b. Formed
c. Actual
d. Base

54. . How do you call the ruled or imaginary line in which the letter rests?
a. Stationed
b. Formed
c. Actual
d. Base

55. 7. It is an imaginary line where the letter rest.

a. Vaseline
b. Rhythm
c. Vase
d. Base

56. 8. In questioned document inquiry, it is a kind of movement wherein the writer uses his/her
entire arm in writing without rest and is usually employed in large writing . It is called?
a. Finger Movement
b. Forearm Movement
c. Wrist Movement
d. Whole arm Movement
57. 9. What kind of document when it contains some changes like addition or deletion?
a. Obliterated
b. Repeated
c. Disputed
d. Altered
58. It is an effective method of detecting erasures because it can show shadows on the surface
of the paper caused by disturbed paper fibers.
a. direct lighting c. transmitted lighting
b. oblique lighting d. x-ray lighting

59. It is the objective of the periodic interruption of dictations when obtaining requested
standards.
a. disrupt the writer c. break the momentum
b. destroy the concentration d. preserve the ink

60. These are standards given or made at the request of an investigator for the sole purpose of
making a comparative examination with the questioned writing..
a. procured standard c. collected standard
b. requested standard d. both a & c