Choices for 1-21.

a. True b. false
1. During their marriage, neither the husband nor the wife may testify for or against the other without the
consent of the affected spouse
2. A minister or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to
any confession made to or any advice given by him in his professional character in the course of
discipline enjoined by the church to which the minister or priest belongs.
3. A witness can also testify only to those facts which he knows not of his personal knowledge; that is,
which are derived from his own perception, except as otherwise provided in these rules.
4. Evidence is admissible when it is relevant to the issue and is not excluded by the law of these rules.
5. Evidence must not have such a relation to the fact in issue as to induce belief in its existence or non-
existence. Evidence on collateral matters shall not be allowed, except when it tends in any reasonable
degree to establish the probability or improbability of the fact in issue.
6. When the original document has been lost or destroyed, or cannot be produced in court, the offeror,
upon proof of its execution or existence and the cause of its unavailability without bad faith on his part,
may prove its contents by a copy, or by a recital of its contents in some authentic document, or by the
testimony of witnesses in the order stated.
7. No person may be compelled to testify against his parents, other direct ascendants, children or other
direct descendants.
8. An offer to pay or the payment of medical, hospital or other expenses occasioned by an injury is not
admissible in evidence as proof of civil or criminal liability for the injury.
9. The rights of a party can be prejudiced by an act, declaration, or omission of another, except as
hereinafter provided.
10. The declaration of an accused acknowledging his guilt of the offense charged, or of any offense
necessarily included therein, may not be given in evidence against him.
11. The rules of evidence shall not be the same in all courts and in all trials and hearings, except as
otherwise provided by law or these rules.
12. Evidence must not have such a relation to the fact in issue as to induce belief in its existence or non-
existence. Evidence on collateral matters shall not be allowed, except when it tends in any reasonable
degree to establish the probability or improbability of the fact in issue.
13. When a document is in two or more copies executed at or about the same time, with identical contents,
all such copies are equally regarded as originals.
14. When an entry is repeated in the regular course of business, one being copied from another at or near
the time of the transaction, all the entries are likewise equally regarded as originals.
15. When the original document has been lost or destroyed, or cannot be produced in court, the offeror,
upon proof of its execution or existence and the cause of its unavailability with bad faith on his part,
may prove its contents by a copy, or by a recital of its contents in some authentic document, or by the
testimony of witnesses in the order stated.
16. A party who calls for the production of a document and inspects the same is not obliged to offer it as
evidence.
17. The language of a writing is to be interpreted according to the legal meaning it bears in the place of its
execution, unless the parties intended otherwise.
18. When an instrument consists partly of written words and partly of a printed form, and the two are
inconsistent, the former controls the latter.
19. When the characters in which an instrument is written are difficult to be deciphered, or the language is
not understood by the court, the evidence of persons skilled in deciphering the characters, or who
understand the language, is admissible to declare the characters or the meaning of the language.
20. During their marriage, neither the husband nor the wife may testify for or against the other without the
consent of the affected spouse, except in a civil case by one against the other, or in a criminal case for a
crime committed by one against the other or the latter's direct descendants or ascendants.
21. There are no requirements in order that an admission of guilt of an accused during a custodial
investigation be admitted in evidence.

22. Evidence which is not excluded by the law or by the Rules of Court.
a. Irrelevant b. competent c. relevant d. documentary
23. Evidence which proves a fact in dispute without the aid of any inference or presumption.
a. Direct b. competent c. relevant d. documentary
24. Testimony of a witness regarding a question of science, art or trade, when he is skilled therein.
a. Irrelevant b. competent c. relevant d. expert
25. Evidence which suffices for the proof of a particular fact until contradicted and overcome by other
evidence.
a. Prima facie b. competent c. relevant d. documentary
26. Evidence which is incontrovertible and which the law does not allow to be contradicted.
a. Prima facie b. conclusive c. relevant d. documentary
27. Evidence which affords the greatest certainty of the fact in question.
Prima facie b. documentary c. relevant d. best
28. Evidence furnished by the things themselves, or view or inspection as distinguished from a description
by them of a witness; that which is addressed directly to the senses of the court without the
intervention of a witness.
 a. real b. documentary c. relevant d. best
29. The declaration of a dying person, made under the consciousness of an impending death, may be
received in any case wherein his death is the subject of inquiry, as evidence of the cause and
surrounding circumstances of such death.
Dying b. interest c. pedigree d. family reputation
30. the thing speaks for itself.
a. res ipsa loquitur b. dura lex sed lex c. lex talionis d. res gestae

31. In a prosecution for rape, the defense relied on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) evidence showing that
the semen found in the private part of the victim was not identical with that of the accuseds. As
private prosecutor, how will you dispute the veracity and accuracy of the results of the DNA evidence?
a. I shall try to discredit the results of the DNA test by questioning and possibly impugning the integrity of
the DNA profile by showing a flaw/error in obtaining the biological sample obtained.
b. I shall try to concur with the results of the DNA test by questioning and possibly impugning the
integrity of the DNA profile by showing a flaw/error in obtaining the biological sample obtained.
c. I shall try to object to the results of the DNA test by questioning and possibly impugning the integrity of
the DNA profile by showing a flaw/error in obtaining the biological sample obtained.
d. I shall try to give credits the results of the DNA test by questioning and possibly impugning the integrity
of the DNA profile by showing a flaw/error in obtaining the biological sample obtained.

32. Exemption to the hearsay rule made under the consciousness of an impending death.
a. parol evidence b. ante mortem statement c. suicide note d. dead man statute
33. It is the means to establish proof.
a. Evidence b. proceeding c. law d. rules of Court
34. Sources of the Rules of Evidence except
a. Constitution b. substantive laws c. RPC d. jurisprudence
35. It is the judicial cognizance of certain matters of common and general knowledge taken by the court
without introduction of notice.
a. Judicial notice b. official acts c. court d. jurisprudence
36. An admission, verbal or written, made by a party in the course of the proceedings in the same case.
a. Judicial admission b. judicial notice c. jurisprudence d. proceedings
37. Those evidence that are addressed to the senses of the court.
a. Testimonial b. object c. character d. documentary
38. Evidence that consists of writing or any material containing letters, words, numbers, figures,
symbols or other modes of written expression offered as proof of their contents.
a. Testimonial b. object c. character d. documentary
39. When the subject of inquiry is the contents of a document, no evidence shall be admissible other
than the
a. Testimonial b. original c. documentary d. copy
40. The original of the document is one the contents of which are the subject of inquiry.
a. Testimonial b. original c. documentary d. copy
41. All persons who can perceive, and perceiving, can make their known perception to others.
a. Prosecution b. witness c. defense d. counsel
42. Evidence which has a relation to the fact in issue as to induce belief in its existence or non-
existence; evidence which tends in any reasonable degree to establish the probability or improbability of
the fact in issue.
a. Irrelevant b. competent c. relevant d. documentary
43. Evidence which is directed to prove a fact in issue as determined by the rules of substantive law and
pleadings; evidence of such quality of substantial importance to the particular issue, apart from its
relevance.
a. Irrelevant b. competent c. relevant d. material
44. It is evidence of the same kind and to the same state of facts.
a. secondary evidence b. prima facie evidence c. corroborative evidence d. best evidence
45. It is that which, standing alone, unexplained or uncontradicted is sufficient to maintain the
proposition affirmed.
a. secondary evidence b. prima facie evidence c. corroborative evidence d. best evidence
46. A form of evidence supplied by written instruments or derived from conventional symbols, such as
letters, by which ideas are represented on material substances.
a. documentary evidence b.testimonial evidence c. material evidence d. real evidence
47. When the witness states that he did not see or know the occurrence of a fact.
a. positive evidence b.corroborative evidence c. secondary evidence d. negative evidence

48. The meaning of factum probans.

a. preponderance of evidence b. ultimate fact c. evidentiary fact d. sufficiency of evidence
49. It refers to family history or descent transmitted from one generation to another.
a. inheritance b. heritage c. pedigree d. culture
50. It is an inquiry or proceeding for the purpose of determining whether there is sufficient ground to engender a
well founded belief that an offense has been committed and the offender is probably guilty thereof and should be
held for trial.
a. pre-trial b. arraignment c. preliminary investigation d. plea bargaining