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TEST IN CRIMINALISTICS forensic science mock exam questionnaire
Personal Identification
1. A German criminologist who discovered that fingerprinting for identification
purposes were already used in the Far East during the tang Dynasty from 618
to 906 A.D.
a. Henry Faulds
b. Dr. Nehemiah Geru
c. Alphonse Bertillion
d. Robert Heindle
2. Fingerprint identification remains to be the most infallible means of identification.
What study attempts at interpreting one’s personality based in fingerprinting?
a. Dactylomancy
b. Dactylosgraphy
c. Dactyloscopy
d. Dermatoglyphics
3. The easiest means of discovering latent fingerprint is to view the area.
a. Obliquely
b. Directly
c. About one inch distance
d. About half an inch distance
4. What would be the primary and secondary division of a ten prints with all the right
hand are whorl and all the left hand are radial loops?
a. 29 W
25 rR3r
b. 25 W
29 rR3r
c. 28 W
24 rR3r
d. 24 W
28 rR3r
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5. In determining the identity of an unknown dead body found in river, wherein no
identifying papers are to be found, and the body is badly mutilated and swollen,
which among the following means of identification is least dependable?
a. Measurement of the body
b. Scars on the Body
c. Fingerprints
d. Tattoo markings on the body
6. In tracing a suspected person at large in a criminal case, the least vital
among the following would be.
a. His occupation or means of livelihood
b. His appearance and how he dresses
c. Known associates and companions
d. Where the suspect hang’s out
7. What does the first two digit of a person’s Social Security Number Indicates?
a. The income bracket or group where member belongs
b. The occupation of the member at the time of registration
c. The region where the member originally registered
d. The month of registration
8. If one finger is amputated, it is given a classification with that of:
a. The opposite finger
b. The first finger
c. The next finger
d. The last finger
9. The person who attempted to destroy his fingerprint through surgery. Also
known as the man without fingerprint?
a. Roscoe Pitts
b. John Augustus
c. Robert James Pitts
d. John Dillinger
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10. Given to a complete set of ten fingers as they appear on a fingerprint card
generally based on patter type, ridge tracing or ridge count.
a. Fingerprint Classification
b. Classification Formula
c. Henry System
d. Battley System
11. When the trace in whorls is on the outsider or core outside of right delta three or
more ridges, the trace is determined to be
a. Outer (o)
b. Converging (c)
c. Meeting (m)
d. Inner (i)
12. Who was the first Filipino fingerprint technician employed at the Philippine
constabulary
a. Generoso Reyes
b. Tomas Medinal
c. Ricardo David
d. Dominador Santos
13. It tells us the classification of the thumbprints on the fingerprint card appears
the right hand over the left hand
a. Final
b. Major Division
c. Key
d. Primary
14. Impressions which are taken simultaneously on the fingerprint card are referred to
as
a. Plan Impressions
b. Fragmentary Impressions
c. Rolled Impressions
d. Palm Impressions
15. Nucleus of the fingerprint pattern which may resemble a loop, spiral or rod.
a. Core
b. Delta
c. Whorl
d. Ridge
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16. Is the term applied to a person whose fingers are more than the usual number
in both hands?
a. Polyfinger
b. Bidactyl
c. Deformities
d. Polydactyl
17. Makes a publication of a report describing the ridges and pores of the hand
and feet which was read before the Royal Society of London.
a. Nehemiah Greu
b. G. Bidloo
c. Hintze
d. Albinus
18. The identification of two impression can be established primarily through:
a. Similarity of the ridge characteristics in their relative positions
b. Formation of different types of patterns
c. Unexplained similarity of ridges
d. Formation of the two terminus
19. First judicial decisions within the Philippines jurisprudence relying on the
science of fingerprinting.
a. People of the Philippines vs. Pomperada 54 Phil. 68
b. People of the Philippines vs. Medina 59 Phil. 330
c. People of the Philippines vs. Pacana 47 Phil 48
d. People of the Philippines vs. Arseni 34 Phil 750
20. In trying to obtain prints on fingers of a dead person which is stuff or when rigor
mortis has set in, injection of a tissue builder by a hypodermic needle at the
joint of the finger up to the tip og the finger is undertaken. Which among the
following is the most commonly utilized tissue builder?
a. Glycerin
b. Saline Solution
c. Water
d. Both a and c
TEST IN CRIMINALISTICS forensic science mock exam questionnaire
Personal Identification
1. A German criminologist who discovered that fingerprinting for identification
purposes were already used in the Far East during the tang Dynasty from 618
to 906 A.D.
a. Henry Faulds
b. Dr. Nehemiah Geru
c. Alphonse Bertillion
d. Robert Heindle
2. Fingerprint identification remains to be the most infallible means of identification.
What study attempts at interpreting one’s personality based in fingerprinting?
a. Dactylomancy
b. Dactylosgraphy
c. Dactyloscopy
d. Dermatoglyphics
3. The easiest means of discovering latent fingerprint is to view the area.
a. Obliquely
b. Directly
c. About one inch distance
d. About half an inch distance
4. What would be the primary and secondary division of a ten prints with all the right
hand are whorl and all the left hand are radial loops?
a. 29 W
25 rR3r
b. 25 W
29 rR3r
c. 28 W
24 rR3r
d. 24 W
28 rR3r
,MEDSTUDY.COM
5. In determining the identity of an unknown dead body found in river, wherein no
identifying papers are to be found, and the body is badly mutilated and swollen,
which among the following means of identification is least dependable?
a. Measurement of the body
b. Scars on the Body
c. Fingerprints
d. Tattoo markings on the body
6. In tracing a suspected person at large in a criminal case, the least vital
among the following would be.
a. His occupation or means of livelihood
b. His appearance and how he dresses
c. Known associates and companions
d. Where the suspect hang’s out
7. What does the first two digit of a person’s Social Security Number Indicates?
a. The income bracket or group where member belongs
b. The occupation of the member at the time of registration
c. The region where the member originally registered
d. The month of registration
8. If one finger is amputated, it is given a classification with that of:
a. The opposite finger
b. The first finger
c. The next finger
d. The last finger
9. The person who attempted to destroy his fingerprint through surgery. Also
known as the man without fingerprint?
a. Roscoe Pitts
b. John Augustus
c. Robert James Pitts
d. John Dillinger
,MEDSTUDY.COM
10. Given to a complete set of ten fingers as they appear on a fingerprint card
generally based on patter type, ridge tracing or ridge count.
a. Fingerprint Classification
b. Classification Formula
c. Henry System
d. Battley System
11. When the trace in whorls is on the outsider or core outside of right delta three or
more ridges, the trace is determined to be
a. Outer (o)
b. Converging (c)
c. Meeting (m)
d. Inner (i)
12. Who was the first Filipino fingerprint technician employed at the Philippine
constabulary
a. Generoso Reyes
b. Tomas Medinal
c. Ricardo David
d. Dominador Santos
13. It tells us the classification of the thumbprints on the fingerprint card appears
the right hand over the left hand
a. Final
b. Major Division
c. Key
d. Primary
14. Impressions which are taken simultaneously on the fingerprint card are referred to
as
a. Plan Impressions
b. Fragmentary Impressions
c. Rolled Impressions
d. Palm Impressions
15. Nucleus of the fingerprint pattern which may resemble a loop, spiral or rod.
a. Core
b. Delta
c. Whorl
d. Ridge
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16. Is the term applied to a person whose fingers are more than the usual number
in both hands?
a. Polyfinger
b. Bidactyl
c. Deformities
d. Polydactyl
17. Makes a publication of a report describing the ridges and pores of the hand
and feet which was read before the Royal Society of London.
a. Nehemiah Greu
b. G. Bidloo
c. Hintze
d. Albinus
18. The identification of two impression can be established primarily through:
a. Similarity of the ridge characteristics in their relative positions
b. Formation of different types of patterns
c. Unexplained similarity of ridges
d. Formation of the two terminus
19. First judicial decisions within the Philippines jurisprudence relying on the
science of fingerprinting.
a. People of the Philippines vs. Pomperada 54 Phil. 68
b. People of the Philippines vs. Medina 59 Phil. 330
c. People of the Philippines vs. Pacana 47 Phil 48
d. People of the Philippines vs. Arseni 34 Phil 750
20. In trying to obtain prints on fingers of a dead person which is stuff or when rigor
mortis has set in, injection of a tissue builder by a hypodermic needle at the
joint of the finger up to the tip og the finger is undertaken. Which among the
following is the most commonly utilized tissue builder?
a. Glycerin
b. Saline Solution
c. Water
d. Both a and c
