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, Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 1 Multiple Choice

1. Forensic science is the application of science to:
a. Crime scene reconstruction.
b. Civil laws.
c. Criminal laws.
d. Both criminal and civil laws.
Answer: d
Objective: Define and distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Page number: 04
Level: Basic

2. The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes was created by:
a. Dalton.
b. Doyle.
c. Darwin.
d. Denton.
Answer: b
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 06
Level: Intermediate

3. Who is known as the "father of forensic toxicology"?
a. Orfilia
b. Locard
c. Osborn
d. Lattes
Answer: a
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 06
Level: Intermediate

4. Who developed the system known as anthropometry?
a. Bertillon
b. Goddard
c. Gross
d. Galton
Answer: a
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 06
Level: Intermediate


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,5. Who undertook the first definitive study of fingerprints as a method of personal
identification?
a. Gross
b. Lattes
c. Goddard
d. Galton
Answer: d
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 08
Level: Intermediate

6. Who devised a technique for determining the blood group of a dried bloodstain, which
he applied to criminal investigations?
a. Lattes
b. Gross
c. Locard
d. Bertillon
Answer: a
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 08
Level: Intermediate

7. Who established the comparison microscope as the indispensable tool of the modern
firearms examiner?
a. Goddard
b. Lattes
c. Gross
d. Osborn
Answer: a
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 08
Level: Intermediate

8. Who wrote the first treatise describing the application of science to the field of
criminal investigation?
a. Locard
b. Osborn
c. Lattes
d. Gross
Answer: d
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 08
Level: Intermediate

9. Who established the first workable crime laboratory?
a. Galton

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, b. Bertillon
c. Locard
d. Osborn
Answer: c
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 08
Level: Intermediate

10. The exchange of evidence principle was theorized by:
a. Gross.
b. Locard.
c. Galton.
d. Osborn.
Answer: b
Objective: Recognize the major contributors to the development of forensic science.
Page number: 09
Level: Basic

11. The oldest forensic laboratory in the United States is that of the:
a. N.Y.C. Police Department.
b. FBI.
c. Los Angeles Police Department.
d. Secret Service.
Answer: c
Objective: Account for the rapid growth of forensic laboratories in the past forty years.
Page number: 09
Level: Intermediate

12. Which of the following can be rightfully cited as an explanation for the rapid growth
of crime labs during the last 40 years?
a. Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s
b. Staggering increase in crime rates in the United States
c. Advent of DNA profiling
d. All of the above
Answer: d
Objective: Account for the rapid growth of forensic laboratories in the past forty years.
Page number: 10
Level: Basic

13. Which entity maintains the largest crime laboratory in the world?
a. FBI
b. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
c. Scotland Yard
d. ATF
Answer: a
Objective: Account for the rapid growth of forensic laboratories in the past forty years.

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