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MCQ.1 The pelvis alone can give the degree of accuracy in sexing
adult as:
a) 98%.
b) 95%
c) 90%
d) 80%
e) 100%

Key: b

MCQ.2 Forensic Entomology deals with the study of:
a) Bones.
b) Soft tissues.
c) Organs.
d) Insects.
e) Integument.

Key: d

MCQ.3 Most common preservative used to preserve the
specimens for chemical examiner is:
a) 10% saline.
b) Alcohol.
c) Saturated saline.
d) Normal solution of saline.
e) Formal Salive.

Key: c


MCQ.4 Suspended animation occurs after:
a) Electrocution
b) Cyanide poisoning
c) Burns
d) Strychnine poisoning
e) Phosphorous poisoning

Key: a

MCQ.5 In a completely charred body, at autopsy, medical officer
can say that the burns are ante mortem, if he can find:
a) Cyanosis of finger nails.
b) Congestion of organs.
c) Pale internal organs.
d) Soot in respiratory passages.
e) Gall bladder full of bile.

Key: d

MCQ.6 Which of the following sign will indicate that death was
due to ante mortem drowning:
a) Petechial hemorrhages in eyes.
b) Washer womans skin.
c) Weed and grass firmly grasped in hands.
d) Cyanosis.
e) Pallor of the organs.

Key: c
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MCQ.7 Highest court in the province is:
a) Supreme court.
b) Shariat court.
c) Session court
d) High court.
e) Anti terrorist court.

Key: d

MCQ.8 A perversion, in which sexual gratification is associated
with contact and sight of certain parts of the female
body, or even clothing or other articles is known as:
a) Exhibitionism.
b) Transvertism.
c) Voyeurism.
d) Frotteurism.
e) Fetichism.

Key: e

MCQ.9 Leading Question is allowed in:
a) Examination in chief.
b) Cross examination.
c) Re-examination.
d) Police inquest.
e) Privileged communication.

Key: b

MCQ.10 A patient dying on theatre table due to wreck less
attitude of an addict anesthetist is a classical example of:
a) Civil negligence.
b) Criminal medical negligence.
c) Contributory negligence.
d) 3
rd
party negligence.
e) Inherent risk of anesthesia.

Key: b

MCQ.11 A tattoo mark, described by immediate relatives, is
absent on autopsy. Its evidence can be obtained from
dissection of:
a) Adjacent muscles.
b) Adjacent fat.
c) Adjacent subcutaneous tissue.
d) Adjacent lymph nodes.
e) Adjacent blood vessels.

Key: d

MCQ.12 In a thin lean person, with no pulmonary pathology, it is
acceptable as evidence of death, if the heart sounds are
not heard for continuous period of:
a) One minute.
b) Two minutes.
c) Three minutes.
d) Four minutes.
e) Five minutes.

Key: e

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MCQ.13 The first internal sign of putrefaction is usually a
discoloration seen on:
a) Bases of lungs.
b) Base of brain.
c) Lower surface of kidneys.
d) Under surface of liver.
e) Under surface of spleen.

Key: d


MCQ.14 Fracture dislocation of cervical column at the level of 2
nd

and 3
rd
or 3
rd
and 4
th
cervical vertebra is caused by:
a) Typical hanging.
b) A typical hanging.
c) Judicial hanging.
d) Complete hanging.
e) Incomplete/ partial hanging.

Key: c

MCQ.15 A condition where several persons acting jointly and
illegally overpower an individual and hang him by means
of a rope to a tree or some similar object is called:
a) Mugging.
b) Illegal hanging.
c) Lynching.
d) Bans Dola.
e) Garroting.

Key: c

MCQ.16 Restraint of suspects by hogtying is practiced in by police
in:
a) Pakistan.
b) Canada.
c) United Kingdom.
d) Some states of U.S.A.
e) India.

Key: d

MCQ.17 Ventricular fibrillation is seen in:
a) Dry drowning.
b) Fresh water drowning.
c) Salt water drowning.
d) Primary drowning.
e) Secondary drowning syndrome.

Key: b

MCQ.18 Red Velvety stomach is seen in a death due to:
a) Acute mercury poisoning.
b) Acute copper poisoning.
c) Acute lead poisoning.
d) Acute arsenic poisoning.
e) Acute phosphorous poisoning.

Key: d

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MCQ.19 Methyl alcohol is:
a) Ototoxic.
b) Nephrotoxic.
c) Ophthalmotoxic.
d) Cardiotoxic.
e) Myotoxic.

Key: c

MCQ.20 The effect of Barbiturate toxicity is classically potentiated
by:
a) Organ phosphorous compounds.
b) Alcohol.
c) Cannabis indica.
d) Opiates.
e) Dhatura.

Key: b

MCQ.21 Macewans sign is observed in:
a) Acute Barbiturate poisoning.
b) Acute alcoholic intoxication.
c) Chronic mercury poisoning.
d) Chronic thalium poisoning.
e) Acute copper toxicity.

Key: b

MCQ.22 Exhumation preferably be performed:
a) After sunset.
b) Early in the morning.
c) After office hours.
d) During office hours.
e) Time to be decided by the relatives.

Key: b

MCQ.23 Penicillamine is:
a) Oxidizing agent.
b) Reducing agent.
c) Mechanical antidote.
d) Chelating agent.
e) Physiological antidote.

Key: d

MCQ.24 Davidson body can be detected in:
a) Male Hepatocyte.
b) Female Buccal mucosal cells.
c) Male Neutrophils.
d) Bone cells of female.
e) Female polymorphs.

Key: e

MCQ.25 Erethism is a peculiar disturbance of personality seen in:
a) Chronic arsenic poisoning.
b) Chronic lead poisoning.
c) Chronic mercury poisoning.
d) Chronic thalium poisoning.
e) Chronic phosphorous poisoning.

Key: c

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MCQ.26 Aseptic autolysis is found in:
a) Adipocere.
b) Putrefaction.
c) Mummification.
d) Maceration.
e) Intra uterine death of a foetus after criminal abortion.

Key: d

MCQ.27 In starvation the post mortem appearance of gall bladder
is:
a) Atrophied.
b) Distended.
c) Shows stones.
d) Thick walled.
e) Normal.

Key: b

MCQ.28 Elevated levels of cyanide are seen in death due to:
a) Hypothermia.
b) Scalds.
c) Starvation.
d) Thermal burns.
e) Drowning.

Key: d

MCQ.29 Sledge hammer blow is seen in:
a) High voltage electrocution.
b) Lightning flash.
c) Air crashes.
d) Railway accidents.
e) Fire arm injuries.

Key: b

MCQ.30 In a right handed person bullet injury on the following
site rules out the possibility of its being suicidal:
a) Right temporal region.
b) Forehead.
c) Left eye.
d) Inside the oral cavity.
e) Left side of chest.

Key: c

MCQ.31 Post mortem caloricity is seen with:
a) Strychnine poisoning.
b) Lead poisoning.
c) Mercury poisoning.
d) Phosphorous poisoning.
e) Sui poisoning.

Key: a

MCQ.32 Specific pulmonary injury seen in Bomb explosion is
known as:
a) Explosive lung.
b) Frothy lung.
c) Blast lung.
d) Cor-Pulmonale.
e) Ruptured lung.

Key: c
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MCQ.33 The rule which gives rough calculations of age regarding
Foetus is:
a) Mc, Naughtens rule.
b) Rule of Hess.
c) Galtons rule.
d) Daltons rule.
e) Locards rule.

Key: b

MCQ.34 Unnatural sexual offences are punished under following
law of Pakistan:
a) Hadood ordinance.
b) Qisas and Diyat law.
c) Section 375 P.P.C.
d) Section 377 P.P.C.
e) Section 380 P.P.C.

Key: d

MCQ.35 Cattle trucking is seen in:
a) Coronary blood vessels.
b) Carotid artery.
c) Radial artery.
d) Retinal blood vessels.
e) Middle meningeal artery.

Key: d

MCQ.36 Ewings postulate deal with trauma and:
a) Heart disease.
b) Brain lessions.
c) Psychological disorders.
d) Tumor.
e) Renal disorder.

Key: d

MCQ.37 N-acetylcysteine should be given in moderate to severe
poisoning of:
a) Opiates.
b) Hydrocyanic acid.
c) Paracetamol.
d) Barbiturates.
e) Methyl alcohol.

Key: c

MCQ.38 Injury to the superficial epithelial layers of the skin of the
neck produced by a ligature such as rope, during hanging
is a:
a) Graze.
b) Scratch.
c) Friction abrasion.
d) Imprint abrasion.
e) Pseudo Bruise.

Key: c

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MCQ.39 Lacerated wound on the occipital area of the skull with
exposure pf the bone without fracture is declared as:
a) Shajjah Khafifah.
b) Shajjah Munaqillah.
c) Shajjah Damigha.
d) Shajjah Modua.
e) Shajjah Ammah.

Key: d

MCQ.40 In a case of organophosphate compound poisoning, smell
of stomach contents is:
a) Fishy.
b) Mousy.
c) Bitter almond like.
d) Kerosene oil like.
e) Spirit like.

Key: d

MCQ.41 False perception without a sensory stimulus is:
a) Illusion.
b) Delusion.
c) Hallucinations.
d) Delirium.
e) Stupor.

Key: c

MCQ.42 Common symptom associated with Opioid analgesic is:
a) Mydriasis.
b) Constipation.
c) Tachy cardia.
d) Urinary incontinence.
e) Delusions.

Key: b

MCQ.43 Rate of silver is fixed every year by the Federal
Government of Pakistan (for purpose of determining
Diyat) on following date:
a) 1
st
January.
b) 1
st
December.
c) 1
st
Ramadan.
d) 1
st
July.
e) 1
st
Moharram.

Key: d

MCQ.44 Hypothermia is observed in poisoning due to:
a) Atropine.
b) Aspirin.
c) Barbiturates.
d) Paracetamol.
e) Strychnine.

Key: c

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MCQ.45 Tattooing present around firearm entry wound is due to:
a) Grease.
b) Hot gases.
c) Smoke.
d) Flame.
e) Unburnt powder particles.

Key: e