1. In gunshot wounds, when there is evident burning of 11.

How many fingerprint classification are used

tissues and blackening of the skin, it may be ascertained internationally?
that it is at near contact fire meaning that the distance a. 2 b. 3
of the body to the gun is approximately, c. 4 d. 5
a. 6 inches b. 12 inches
c. 18 inches d. 24 inches

2. When there is a choice between several deltas and 12. The Three (3) fingerprint classifications are; Arch,
one of which is a bifurcation, the one to be selected Loops, and ________.
should be the ________. a. Tented Arch b. Accidental Whorl
a. Arch b. Core c. Whorls d. Ulnar Loop
c. Bifurcation d. Eyelet
13. In criminal investigation, when we say “bullet”, does
3. Can all physicians allowed to conduct Autopsy? it includes pellets?
a. Yes b. no a. Yes b. No
c. never d. False c. Never d. Maybe

4. The test used in textile fibers. 14. Muzzle velocity of Military firearms.
a. photography a. 1,850 fps b. 1,925 fps
b. lie detection c. 2,500 fps d. 3,500 – 4,000 fps
c. burning and solubility test
d. comparison microscope 15. It refers to the actual curve path of projectile from
the moment it leaves the gun barrel until it hits the
5. Branch of Metallurgy that involves the target.
microstructures of metals and alloys. a. Trajectory b. Velocity
a. Metallography c. Stability d. Ricochet
b. alloygraphy
c. macro etching 16. If smokeless powder was made from gelatinize
d. micro etching nitrocellulose mixed with ether and alcohol, does Black
powder contains charcoal and sulfur?
a. Yes b. No
6. Three (3) types of poisons. c. Never d. Maybe
a. Organic, Inorganic, Biological
b. Hypnotic, Sedatives, Laxatives 17. These are guns designed to fire only one shot for
c. Emetics, Biological, Inorganic every loading.
d. Organic, Sedatives, Biological a. Single-shot firearm
b. Bolt action type
7. Antidote for Arsenic Poisoning. c. Repeating firearms
a. Thiamine d. Slide action type
b. Pyridoxine
c. Succimer 18. In gunshot wounds, which is always greater in
d. Fabahistine appearance?
a. Entrance b. Exit
8. “ Did you ever steal anything?” is what kind of
questions. c. Contact d. Close
a. Relevant b. Irrelevant
c. Control d. General question 19. In photography, when we say tripod, how many
stands are there?
9. Breaking down of complex proteins into simpler a. 2 b. 3
components associated with foul smelling gasses and c. 4 d. 5
accompanied by chance in color of the body.
a. Putrefaction b. Maceration 20. Can rigor mortis determine the time of death?
c. Mummification d. Marbolization a. Yes b. No
c. Never d. Maybe
10. Two (2) persons who tried to destroy their
fingerprints 21. In robbery case. Which is the focus of close up
a. John Dillenger and Robert James Pitt photography?
b. Tom Dillenger and Brad Pitt a. valuable materials
c. John Denver and Robert James Pitt b. forcible entry
d. John Denver and Brad Pitt c. disarray furniture’s
d. broken glass
22. In post-mortem lividity, the blood cannot be 33. Another term for Ultra-violet light.
transferred even if the body has been moved to another a. White light
position when the blood is defused in the ____________. b. Red light
a. tissues b. plasma c. Black light
c. Outer skin d. Veins d. Roentgen

23. Most common form of asphyxia. 34. It is an adjustable mechanism that regulates the
a. Strangulation b. hanging amount of light reaching the film by varying the length
c. lynching d. Garroting of time, and it is consider as the door of the camera.
a. Lens
24. A condition in which the supply of oxygen to the b. focusing Ring
blood has been reduced below working levels. c. Shutter
a. Asphyxia b. homicide d. Aperture
c.syncope d. Coma
35. Sequence of sensitivity of the Three (3) emulsion
25. Involuntary divergence of the pen line from the layers of color film.
natural direction in the formation of letters. a. Blue-Green-Red
a. Tremor b. Hiatus b. Red- Green-Blue
c. Shading d. loose writing c. Green-Red-Blue
d. Blue-Red-Green
26. First police surgeon or forensic pathologist who
performed the autopsy of Julius Caesar. 36. An instrument used to measure the bore diameter of
a shotgun.
a. Paul Zacchias b. Antistius a. Taper gauge
c. Landsteiner d. Hipocrates b. Helixometer
c. Microscope
d. Onoscope
27. How many percent of alcohol is needed to be
considered that a person is intoxicated? 37. Covers the surface of the dermis with blunt peg-like
a.0.05% b. 0.15% formation.
c. 0.15% d. 1.05% a. Epidermis
b. Sweat pores
28. Used to see stains on clothes that are invisible to a c. Dermal papillae
normal light. d. Sweat gland
a. X-ray b. Infrared light
c. UV light d. visible lights
38. An instrument used to detect alcohol in human
29. A little bit better than idiots. body.
a. Imbecile b. Moron c. Moral deficiency a. Alcotest
b. Drunkometer
30. What is the purpose of getting the plain impression c. Breath analyzers
of the subject? d. Intoximeter
a. For classification purposes
b. For verification purposes 39. The morphological constituents of human hair.
c. To check the order of the rolled impression a. Medulla, Cortex, Cuticle
d. For comparison purposes b. Root, Shaft, Tip
c. Anagen, Catagen, Telogen
31. The poisonous gas that smells like a rotten egg. d. Refracting index, Birefringence, Density
a. Hydrogen sulfide
b. Sulfur dioxide 40. The depression between the ridges which maybe
c. Hydrogen dioxide compared with the low areas in a tire tread.
d. Hydrochloride a. Core
b. Delta
32. A violent volatile poison producing an almond odor c. Furrows
in vomit’s of the victim. d. Sweat pores
a. Plasma
b. Cyanide 41. It is the access to another computer network sites to
c. Sulfur steal data or sensitive information.
d. Lead a. Hacking b. Cyber spies
c. Morphing d. Password sniffers
42. It is a sensitized material that has the primary 50. All fingers are rolled AWAY from the subject’s body
function of recording the image that is focused upon it except?
by the lens of the camera. a. Both Index fingers
a. Photographic paper b. Both Little fingers
b. Film c. Both Middle fingers
c. Filter d. Both Thumbs
d. Camera
51. Branch of ballistics which involves the study of
projectile’s behavior from the time it leaves the gun
43. A component of a polygraph machine which is used until it ends its flight.
to record the perspiration and breathing of a subject a. Interior Ballistics
with the aid of a convoluted rubber tube. b. Terminal Ballistics
a. Plethysmograph c. Exterior Ballistics
b. Pneumograph d. Transitional Ballistics
c. Galvanograph
d. Kymograph
52. Regarded as a special form of pen lift disguise in
44. The most typical camera used for police which a perceptible group appears in the writing.
photography. a. Diacritic
a. Polaroid still camera b. Hiatus
b. Single lens reflex camera c. Hesitation
c. Digital camera d. Tremor
d. View camera

45. They are considered as the focal points in 53. These are firearms that propel projectiles with
fingerprint identification. diameter of more than one (1) inch.
a. Appendage and Upthrust a. Artillery
b. Core and Delta b. Musket
c. Recurving ridge and Coverging ridge c. Assault rifle
d. Pattern area and Typelines d. Cannon

46. Black powder as discovered by Chinese Alchemist is 54. There are always two deltas in what fingerprint
consists of a mixture of: pattern?
a. Gelatinized nitrocellulose with ether and alcohol a. Ach
b. Sulfur, Gelatinized nitrocellulose with ether b. Loop
c. Salt, sulfur and alcohol c. Whorls
d. Sulfur, Charcoal and saltpetre d. Accidental whorl

47. How many days after infliction does a “black-eye” 55. The two types of glass fractures are?
can be observed to be turning Purple? a. Radial and Ulnar fractures
a.1-4 days b. Radial and Concentric fractures
b.4-5 days c Concentric and emetic fractures
c. 6-7 days d. Plain and one-way fractures
d. 8-9 days
56. A fingerprint characteristics which is free from any
48. A principle in fingerprint which states that the ridge obstruction.
patterns on the digits never change during the life of an a. Sufficient recurve/ Recurving ridge
individual. b. Insufficient recurve
a. Principle of Permanency c. Insipient ridge
b. Principle of Individuality d. diverging ridge
c. Principle of Infallibility
d. Principle of Lividity 57. In terminal ballistics, it is the depth of bullet
penetrating the target.
a. Terminal Accuracy
49. “Is your mother’s name Magdalena?” is what kind of b. Terminal Velocity
question? c. Terminal Energy
a. Relevant d. Terminal Penetration
b. Irrelevant
c. Control
d. General question
58. Firearms are like people that have general and 66. When a shot is fired on an automatic pistol by a
specific characteristics. What firearm characteristics criminal.
refers to those that can be determined only after a gun a. The empty shells remain within the chamber
is already manufactured? b. The shell is rarely found at the crime scene
a. Caliber and Model c. The shell in most cases will be found at the scene
b. Class Characteristics of firing
c. Rifling Characteristics d. The shell is usually disposed by the perpetrator
d. Individual Characteristics
67. When bullet travels through the body it produces a
59. A typewriter defect that can be corrected by shock wave which damages the tissue around its path,
cleaning the machine or replacing the ribbon. this is known as –
a. Transitory defect a. Contact
b. Typeface defect b. Close discharge
c. Alignment defect c. Distance charge
d. Permanent defect d. Tissue quake

60. It is the ridge count of the first loop pattern 68. In tented arches, the ridges _________
appearing on the fingerprint card except the two little a. Make a complete circuit
fingers. b. Makes an obstruction
a. Primary classification c. Run from one side to another with rise at the
b. Secondary classification center
c. Final Classification d. Make a backward turn
d. Key classification

61. It refers to the last stage of toxological examination. 69. In taking fingerprints, __________ are rolled towards
a. Quantification the body of the subject.
b. Microscopic examonation a. All fingers
c. Biological b. Both thumbs
d. None of the following c. Little fingers
d. All fingers except thumb
62. Individual characteristics of firearms can be
determined even before a gun is manufactured. This
statement is- 70. If the same digits of both hands are missing, the
a. True impressions are held to be __________.
b. False a. Dependent on the classification of the print of the
c. Doubtful other finger
d. Maybe b. Dependent on the ridge tracing
c. Loops
63. These are marks found at the extracting groove of d. Plain whorl, Meeting
the spent shell caused by its withdrawal from the
chamber.
a. Ejector marks 71. In the investigation of a rape case, use of ultra
b. Shearing marks violent light is a useful method because-
c. Extractor marks a. Only to establish whether certain stains, after they
d. Firing pin marks have been located by some other method.
b. To locate stains, but not to establish whether they
are semen stains
64. Human hair has medullary index of less than ________, c. Both to locate stains and to establish whether they are
and animal hair has a medullary index of greater than semen stains
a. 0.1, 0.2 b. 0.2, 0.3 c. 0.3, 0.5 d. 0.5, 0.7 d. Neither for finding nor for determining their nature

65. This will serve as authority of polygraph examiner

to examine the subject as evidence that subject 72. If a subject has more than ten (10) fingers, the extra
voluntary submits to undergo the test. finger is printed on the_______ of the fingerprint chart
a. Willingness of the subject to undergo Pre-test in with notation to the effect that same is an extra finger.
interview a. Face
b. Willingness of the subject to take the test to b. Other side
prove his innocence c. Face, upper corner
c. Willingness of the subject to give his personal data d. Face, lower corner
during the pre-test interview
d. None of the foregoing
73. Discharge shells are initialed at – 80. A characteristic of post-mortem symptom of carbon
a. Inside or outside of the case near open end monoxide poisoning is a –
b. On any part of the shell a. Vary texture and appearance of the skin
c. Where firing pin strikes b. Contorted position of the body
d. At the base c. Pinkish lividity of all part of the body
d. Marked protuberance of the eyeballs
74. The retouching of a defective portion of a written
stroke is known in questions document examination as 81. The English person who coined the term
a. Feathering “Photography” in English language.
b. Shading a. William Abney
c. Retracing b. William Talbot
d. Patching c. Louis Daguerre
d. John F. Herschel
75. In case of minor injury affecting only the layer of the
friction skin, the injury will not permanently deface the 82. In taking mug shots of a suspect who is standing, the
ridge formation provided that the ______ is not affected. camera should be positioned –
a. Dermis a. At neck level
b. Epidermis b. At chest level
c. Bone of the finger c. At hips level
d. Ulna bone d.Slightly above the head level

76. A drop of blood which falls from the moving object 83. This condition mimics rigor mortis when the dead
or person is elongated and the splashes are found to be body is exposed to very low temperature.
concentrated around one end of the stain. As a general a. Cold stiffening
rule, the splashes and the extension of the drop of blood b. Heat stiffening
indicates – c. Cadaveric spasm
a. Fresh blood d. Instantaneous rigor
b. Dried stain
c. Direction of movement 84. Evidence which change quickly such as skid marks,
d. Dead person the wounds and bruises will heal and disappear before
the case comes to trial. Such evidence can be preserved
by –
77. The identity of two impressions is established a. Pickling method and introduced in court as evidence
primarily through _______. b. Photographed introduced in court as evidence
a. Dimensions of pattern c. Casting and mould and introduced in court as
b. Similarity of traces evidence
c. Unexplained similarity of patterns d. All of the foregoing
d. Ridge characteristics and the relative position of
these ridge characteristics 85. The type of special kind of death is done by making
convict face a firing squad and is put to death by a volley
of fire.
78. When inking fingers for the purpose of taking rolled a. Musketry
impressions, the fingers must be inked from ______ to b. Euthanasia
base of the joint. c. Judicial death
a. Base d. Hanging
b. Tip
c. Second joint 86. To be able to make a positive identification of a
d. Third joint person, document examiner must be able to observe the
a. Characteristics of his handwriting
b. Writing position of the writer
79. Is a kind of fingerprint pattern in which one or more c. Manner on how the writer moves the pain
ridges enter on either side of the impression by a d. Distinguishing individual features of his
recurve, pass out or terminate on the same side as the handwriting
ridges enter.
a. Loop 87. Writing characterized by too much freedom of
b. Ulnar loop movement and lack of regulation which is usually tall
c. Radial loop letters.
d. Tented arch a. Loss writing
b. Restrained writing
c. Genuine writing
d. Regulated writing
88. Upon beginning the test, how many seconds should 96. Period of time wherein human bones will not exhibit
the examiner wait before asking the first question? changes.
a. 10-15 b. 15-20 a. 10 years
c. 5-10 d. 20-25 b. 20 years
c. 30 years
89. A form of sexual perversion where a male individual d. 40 years
derives pleasure from wearing the female apparels.
a. Homosexuality b. Transexualism 97. The tumbling of the bullet in its flight and hitting the
c. Tranvestism d. Intersexuality target sideways as a result of not spinning on its axis.
a. Gyroscopic action
90. Portrait parle is correctly defined by which of the b. Key hole shot
following? c. Spinning
a. The verbal, accurate, and picturesque description d. Recoil
of the person identified
b. It is the file of pictures of missing or wanted persons 98. A wound produced by blunt object/instrument such
c. The use of anthropometrical measurement of human as log and stone.
body as the basis for identification a. Punctured
d. It is the used of several evidences to eliminate or b. Incised
include in choice for identification c. Lacerated
d. Stab wound
91. One of the following is considered the “cardinal rule
in chart interpretation”. 99. A physical injury which is found at the site and also
a. Chart makings is the keynote to accurate chart the opposite site of application of force.
interpretation a. Extensive injury
b. Specific response must form a deviation from norm b. Coup injury
c. Any change from normal response requires an c. Contre coup injury
explanation d. Coup and contre coup injury
d. Chart probing shall be done after each chart
100. The light from the pinhole camera will form –
92. Maybe defined as the scientific examination of a. A halo effect
firearms, shell, bullets allegedly used in the commission b. A photographic emulsion
of a crime. c. An inverted image
a. Forensic ballistics d. An emergency ray
b. Interior ballistics
c. Exterior ballistics 101. The simplest of all fingerprint patterns is the –
d. None of the foregoing a. Plain arch
b. Loop
93. DNA is a chemical substance found in all cells and c. Whorl
individuals has a unique DNA and only ________ share the d. Plain whorl
same DNA pattern.
a. Mother and child 102. It was found out by the authorities in Dactyloscopy
b. Father and child that 65% of fingerprint patterns are classified as –
c. Mother and father a. Whorl
d. Identical twins b. Loops
c. Arches
94. The restoration of tampered serial numbers can be d. Combination of loop and whorl
done by the use of –
a. Benzidine solution 103. The rifling of a firearm is located inside the barrel.
b. Saline solution It consist of –
c. Etching solution a. Raised portion
d. Sulfuric acid b. Depressed portion
c. Lands portion
95. In ridge tracing, 3 or more ridges above the right d. Lands and grooves
delta is considered whorl type of pattern with –
a. Inner tracing 104. The fingerprint of a person appears on fetus
b. Outer tracing between _________ after conception.
c. Meeting Tracing a. 100-200 days
d. IMO tracing b. 100-120 days
c. 100-220 days
d. 100- 150 days
105. Contemporary handwriting standards means that
the age of the standard should be within –
a. 5 years prior to the date of the questioned
document
b. 10 years prior to the date of the questioned document
c. 8 years prior to the date of the questioned document
d. 12 years prior to the date of the questioned document

106. The identification of handwriting is based on the

proposition that –
a. People are all alike
b. People are with different handwriting
c. People are all different
d. All of the foregoing

107. A type of burn produced as a result of the body

come in contact with a moving object.
a. Radiation burn
b. Electrical burn
c. Friction burn
d. Thermal burn

108. The marks left on a bullet by a gun barrel are

different from those left by any other gun barrel. This
fact is most useful in identifying the –
a. Direction from which a shot was fired
b. Person who fired a particular gun
c. Bullet which caused a fatal wound
d. Gun from which the bullet was fired

109. In cases of suicide, what would be the noticeable

muscular change?
a. Cold stiffening
b. Heat stiffening
c. Instantaneous rigor
d. Putrefaction

110. Designed to fire at night which emits a bright flame

at its base.
a. Tracer bullet
b. Zip gun
c. Dum-dum
d. Blank ammunition