Colegio de Kidapawan

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CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT
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CRIMTIC - 4
JAN DOMINIC NAVA
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INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Choose
only one answer for each item by providing the letter of your choice on the space
provided before each number. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.
Test I. Multiple Choices (2pts. Each)
1. One in which the facts appearing therein may not be true, and are contested either in whole
or part with respect to its authenticity, identity, or origin.
a. Questioned document
b. Illegal document
c. Falsified document
d. Disputed facts
2.
Are condensed and compact set of authentic specimens which, if adequate and proper,
should contain a cross section of the material from a known source for questioned
document examination.
a. Basis products
b. Standards
c. Handwriting
d. Signatures
3.
A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to characterize known material.
a. Basis
b. Exemplar
c. Xerox copies
d. Reproduced
4.
When a document is issued and notarized by a notary public or competent public official
with solemnities required by law, it is called
a. Official document
b. Public document
c. Commercial document
d. Private Document
5.
What is known as the blotting out or shearing over the writing to make the original invisible
to as an addition?
a. Obliteration
b. Obscuration
c. Forged
d. None of these
6.
In legal language, it refers to the document examiner's conclusion. In Court, he may not
only express it but demonstrates the reasons for arriving at his conclusion.
a. Remarks
b. Testimony
c. Opinion
d. Reasoning
7.
In this kind of document examination, the document is viewed with the source of
illumination behind it and the light passing through the paper. Documents are subjected to
this type of examination to determine the presence of erasures, matching of serrations and
some other types of alterations.
a. Microscopic examination
b. Ultra violet examination
c. Photographic examination
d. Transmitted light examination
8.
It is the result of a very complicated series of facts, being used as whole, combination of
certain forms of visible mental and muscular habits acquired by long, continued painstaking
effort. Some defined it as visible speech.
a. Typewriting
b. Money Bills
c. Handwriting

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d. All of these
In document examination, what is the relation of parts of the whole of writing or line of
individual letters in words to the baseline?
a. Proportion
b. Alignment
c. Lining
d. Letter forms
Any property or mark which distinguishes and in document examination commonly called to
as the identifying details is called
a. Standard
b. Characteristics
c. Attribute
d. Form
The act of setting two or more items side by side to weigh their identifying qualities; it
refers not only a visual but also the mental act in which the element of one item are related
to the counterparts of the other.
a. Collation
b. Analysis
c. Comparison
d. Recording
It is the crime of making, circulating or uttering false coins and banknotes. Literally, it
means to make a copy of; or imitate; to make a spurious semblance of, as money or
stamps, with the intent to deceive or defraud.
a. Counterfeiting
b. Falsification
c. Forgery
d. Fake money bills
A fluid or viscous marking material used for writing or printing.
a. Pen
b. Ink
c. Coal
d. Chalk
What is the oldest ink material known?
a. Ball point pen ink
b. Chinese Ink
c. Aniline Ink
d. White Ink
A document in which some issues have been raised or is under scrutiny.
a. Void Document
b. Illegal Document
c. Forged Document
d. Questioned Document
The following are characteristics of forgery except one:
a. Presence of Natural Variation
b. Multiple Pen Lifts
c. Show bad quality of ink lines
d. Patchwork Appearance
Standards which are prepared upon the request of the investigator and for the purpose of
comparison with the questioned document.
a. relative standards
b. collected standards
c. extended standards
d. requested standards
Any stroke which goes back over another writing stroke.
a. natural variation
b. rhythm
c. retracing
d. shading
The name of a person written by him/her in a document as a sign of acknowledgement.
a. Opinion
b. Document
c. Signature
d. Handwriting

20. A kind of document which is executed by a private person without the intervention of a
notary public, or of competent public official, by which some disposition of agreement is
proved.
a. commercial document
b. official document
c. public document
d. private document
21. An instrument that can be legally used in comparison with a questioned document, its origin
is known and can be proven.
a. simulated document
b. forged document
c. standard document
d. compared document
22. The process of making out what is illegible or what has been effaced.
a. Comparison
b. Collation
c. Obliteration
d. Decipherment
23. A document which contains some changes either as an addition or deletion.
a. inserted document
b. altered document
c. disputed document
d. obliterated document
24. A kind of erasure by using a rubber eraser, sharp knife, razor blade or picking instrument.
a. mechanical erasure
b. electronic erasure
c. magnetic erasure
d. chemical erasure
25. It is the periodic increase in pressure, characterized by widening of the ink stroke.
a. Shading
b. pen lift
c. pen emphasis
d. pen pressure
26. A kind of document executed by a person in authority and by private parties but notarised
by competent officials.
a. private document
b. commercial document
c. public document
d. official document
27. There is freehand invitation and is considered as the most skilful class of forgery
a. simulated or copied forgery
b. simple forgery
c. traced forgery
d. carbon tracing
28. Condensed and compact set of authentic specimen which is adequate and proper, should
contain a cross section of the material from known sources.
a. disguised document
b. questioned document
c. standard document
d. requested document
29. Specimens of hand writing or of typescript which is of known origin.
a. Letters
b. Samples
c. Exemplars
d. Documents
30. A document which is being questioned because of its origin, its contents or the
circumstances or the stories of its production.
a. disputed document
b. standard document
c. requested document
d. questioned document

Test II. Identification. (3 pts. Each item) Write your answers on the space provided before
each number.
_____________1. Any signature, handwriting, typewriting or other mark whose source or
authenticity is in dispute or doubtful.
_____________2. The action producing a copy of a document, signature, banknote, or work of
art with intent to deceive.
_____________3. Made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention
to deceive or defraud.
_____________4. The name of a person or mark representing it as written by himself/herself.
_____________5. The study of the handwriting to determine personality traits.
_____________6. It is any material that contains marks, symbols, or signs either visible,
partially visible, or invisible that may ultimately convey a meaning or message to someone.
_____________7. A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to characterize
known material.
_____________8. In legal language, it refers to the document examiner's conclusion. In Court,
he may not only express it but demonstrates the reasons for arriving at his conclusion.
_____________9. A fluid or viscous marking material used for writing or printing.
_____________10. The country which Ink Originated
Test III. Enumeration.
1. Four kinds of Document (4 pts.)

2. Two Divisions in Questioned Document Examination (2 pts.)

Test IV. Essay.

1. Discuss the roles of a Questioned Document Examiner. (4pts)