1.

A condition in which the supply of oxygen to the blood has been reduced below
working levels.
a. Asphyxia c. Syncope
b. Homicide d. Coma
2. Evidence which change quickly such b. Photographed introduced in court
as skid marks, the wounds and as evidence
bruises will heal and disappear c. Casting and mould and
before the case comes to trial. Such introduced in court as evidence
evidence can be preserved by – d. All of the foregoing
a. Pickling method and introduced
in court as evidence
3. Contre coup injury is?
a. Injury at the site of application
b. Injury found opposite in the site of application
c. Injury found both at the site and opposite of the application
d. Injury found in the part of the body which offers least resistance
4. Application of medical science to elucidate legal problems?
a. Forensic medicine c. Medical jurisprudence
b. Legal medicine d. All of these
5. A muscular change characterized by the softness of the muscles and no longer
respond to mechanical or electrical stimulus due to the dissolution of protein?
a. Primary flaccidity c. Rigor mortis
b. Secondary flaccidity d. Cadaveric spasm
6. Immediate stiffening after death due to severe injury to the central nervous center or when
there was great tension at time of death.
a. Rigor Mortis c. Cadaveric spasm
b. Livor Mortis d. Post mortem

7. Magnus test is done by which of the following procedures?

a. Place a fine feather or a strip of cotton in front of the lips and nostrils
b. Melted sealing wax is dropped on the breast of a person
c. Injection of a solution of fluorescein subcutaneously
d. A ligature is applied around the base of a finger with moderate tightness
8. A 19 y/o man was found lying, motionless, breathless along the road. Which of the
following tests is used as method of detecting cessation of respiration?
a. Icard c. Winslow
b. Magnus d. Diaphanous
9. In dental identification, the age may be reflected in dentition and a person with twenty
permanent teeth is how many years old?
a. 11 c. 13
b. 9 d. 10
10. Kunkel’s test is a qualitative test for the presence of?
a. Carbon monoxide c. Hydrogen sulfide
b. Carbon dioxide d. Hydrogen cyanide
11. A gait in which the foot is raised high, thrown forward and brought down suddenly and is
seen in person suffering from tabes dorsalis
a. Cow’s gait c. Festinating gait
b. Ataxic gait d. Waddling gait

12. When a fetus has an approximate length of 13 cm, weighs 204 grams, sex can be
distinguished and skull partly ossified with wide sutures and fontanelle, what is the age of
pregnancy in months?
a. 6th c. 5th
b. 3rd d. 4th
13. The partial or complete disruption in the continuity of a muscular or ligamentous support of
a joint is called?
a. Fracture b. Sublaxation
 c. Strain d. Sprain
14. If the body s exhumed for the purpose of performing post-mortem examination, which of the
following is not correct?
a. After the body has been in disinterred, it must be identified by the relatives or friends
b. A deodorant and disinfectant must be applied to the body to allow those performing the
examination to be more comfortable and safe
c. The body may be identified by marks on it
d. Physician must describe the coffin, clothing and degree of decomposition before
stating the actual disease or violence in his report
15. Which of the following gases is also known as the “silent killer”
a. Carbon dioxide c. Carbon monoxide
b. Hydrogen sulfide d. Hydrogen cyanide
16. Anemic anoxic death is due to decreased capacity of the blood to carry oxygen as in?
a. Heart failure
b. Smothering and overlaying
c. Drowning
d. CO poisoning
17. Softening of tissues due to the action of autolytic and proteolytic enzymes in the
absence of bacteria. Frequently observed in the death of the fetus in the uterus.
a. Saponification c. Adipocere
b. Maceration d. Sugillation
18. A testfor blood which determines whether blood is a human or non-human origin,
and if non-human, the specific animal family from which it originated.
a. Solubility test c. takayama test
b. Teichman test d. precipitin test
19. Test for blood in which positive result color blue (1:300,000 dilution) This is an
extremely sensitive test that can be applied to minute stain.
a. Gualacum test c. Benzidine test
b. Phenolphtalein test d. wagenhaar test
20. A sexual deviate in which there is use of obscene language to satisfy sexual
gratification.
a. Fetishism c. don juanism
b. Transvestism d. coprolalia
21. Pubic hair may turn gray at the age of?
a. 30 years c. 50 years
b. 40 years d. 60 years
22. Heat stiffening is the stiffening of the muscles due to coagulation of muscle proteins
when exposed to intense heat usually in more than ___ degrees Celsius which will
coagulate muscle proteins.
a. 45 degrees c. 65 degrees
b. 55 degrees d. 75 degrees
23. Blood remains fluid in the body in about how many hours?
a. 3-4 hrs c. 6-8 hrs
b. 1-2 hrs d. 3-6 hrs
24. At what stage where immediately after death, there is complete relaxation and
softening of all muscles of the body. The extremities may be reflexed, the lower jaw
falls, the eyeball loses its tensions and there may be inconsistencies of urination and
defecation.
a. State of primary flaccidity c. onset of putrefaction
b. State of secondary faccidity d. post mortem rigidity
25. For the purpose of succession, how many years will a person be presumed dead
after disappearing?
a. 4 years c. 7 years
b. 5 years d. 10 years
26. What refers to external examination of a dead body without incision being made,
although blood and other body fluids may be collected for further examination is
conducted.
a. Autopsy c. excision
b. Post mortem examination d. nota
 27. A kind of wound produced by a sharp edge instrument. It is longer as much as it is
deeper.
a. Incised c. lacerated
b. Hematoma d. punctured
28. It is an extravasation of blood in a newly formed cavity secondary to trauma
characterized by swelling, discoloration of tissues swelling and effusion pf blood
underneath the tissues.
a. Hematoma c. contusion
b. Petechial hemorrhage d. lacerated wound
29. What is the normal quantity of semen in a single ejaculation?
a. 1.5 – 3.5 cc c. 2.5 – 5 cc
b. 4.5 – 5.5 cc d. 1.5- 2.5 cc
30. Approximately __ times the size of the head equals the height of the person.
a. 8 c. 10
b. 9 d. 11
31. Person who are almost strangers may be recognized as a distance of___?
a. 10-13 yards c. 16-17 yards
b. 25 yards d. 22 yards
32. What is a science, which deals with the study of human body fluid, which are the
result of secretion and excretion?
a. Serology c. Posology
b. Plasma d. Entomology
33. a peculiar, deeply furrowed, lion like appearance of the face. This may be observed
in leprosy, elephantiasis and leontiasis ossia.
a. Hippocratic facies c. Myxedema facies
b. Mongolia facies d. facies leonine
34. In the presumption of survivorship, If one is under 15 and the other is above 60 who
is presumed to have survived?
a. The one under 15 year old c. both is presumed to have survived
b. The one who is above 60 d. none because they could not have survived.
35. If the person died with communicable disease, he can only be exhumed how many
years after interment?
a. 3 years c. 5 years
b. 4 years d. 6 years
36. Without food and water, person cannot survived for more than how many days?
a. 7 days c. 9 days
b. 8 days d. 10 days
37. A child who is a product of the promiscuity of a prostitute.
a. Incestrous c.Manceres
b. Sacreligious d. nota
38. Their presence in the cadaver would indicate death has occurred more than 24 hrs
hence, useful to indicate approximate time of death.
a. Flies c. bees
b. Butterflies d. earthworms
39. Criminal investigative activities virtually deals with:
a. Recognition and collection of facts which may be sensory, documentary and physical forms
b. Preservation and evaluation of information gathered from the regular, cultivated and
grapevine sources
c. Persons and things
d. A and B only
40. Apollo killed his adoptor after the rendition of judgment of the petition for adoption. What was the crime committed by
Apollo?
a. Parricide c. Homicide
b. Murder d. None of the above
41. Principles in homicide investigation that should be borne in mind are, mistakes of the homicide investigator cannot
be corrected and the homicide investigator should not cross the three bridges which he burns behind him.
 Which of the following is not one of this so called “Burned bridge”?
a. When the dead person has been moved
b. When the dead body has been embalmed
c. When the dead body has been contaminated and the chain of custody was not properly accounted
d. When the body is burned or cremated
42. Considered to be the beginning of any homicide investigation is:
a. Process of establishing the accurate cause of death
b. Process of determining who is responsible for the death
c Process of determining how the victim was killed
d. Process of determining when the victim was killed
43. In a case of dead person, when autopsy should be performed?
a. Death has been caused by violence
b. At once when there is the slightest reason to suspect the probability of homicide.
c. Upon the request of the dead person’s family
d. In all cases involving death
44. Which of the following is the primary role of the investigator upon arrival at the homicide scene?
a. Verification of death
b. Identification of the person who is responsible for the death
c. Call a physician for the proper declaration of death
d. All of the above
45. Legally, when does death considered to have occurred?
a. Respiratory system is no longer performing within the body
b. Cardiac activity is no longer performing within the body
c. Central nervous system activity is no longer performing within the body
d. All of the above
46. Uses of physical evidence, except:
a. Determine the cause of crime
b. Reconstruct the crime
c. Identify the participants
d. Confirm or discredit an alibi
47. In order to introduce physical evidence in trial, three important factors may be considered, except:
a. The article must be properly identified
b. Continuity or chain of custody
c. Legality of the procurement
d. Competency must be proved, that the evidence is material and relevant
48. You are a police officer responding to a crime which there is a dying person. You will obtain dying declaration
from him. Which of the following is not one of your duties in regard to dying declaration?
a. Observe the victim as to whether he is manifesting a feeling of his impending death
b. Observe carefully the mental condition of the victim and jot down immediately his statements
c. Attempt to save the life of the victim
d. Avoid leading questions and produce the statement.
49. Statement no. 1-Admissibility of dying declaration is not dependent on their being made in any particular
form. Statement no. 2- Dying declaration has no definite form required and need not be under oath.
a. Statement no. 1 is true
b. Statement no. 2 is false
c. Statements no. 1 and 2 are both true
d. Statements no. 1 and 2 are both false
50. Before the dead body is removed from the crime scene, the investigator must be sure that the following had
already been performed.
1. Crime scene search, sketch and photograph taken.
2. Possible witnesses are identified, leads taken into considerations and relative position of the body was
determined.
3. Notes are properly taken cared, evidence are identified, collected and preserved.
4. Close coordination between the medico-legal officer, the prosecutor and the homicide investigator was
established.
a. 1 and 4 c. 2 and 3
b. 1, 2 and 3 d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
51. Rape by sexual assault, except::
a. Inserting penis into another person’s mouth
 b. Inserting penis into another person’s anal orifice
c. Inserting penis while the woman is sleeping
d Inserting any instrument or object, into the genital or anal orifice of another person.
52. Post-mortem change that is characterized by the discoloration of the body after death.
A. livor mortis C. algor mortis
B. rigor mortis D. all of the above
53. What injury would a person sustain if hit in the head with a hard object?
A. lacerated wound C. hematoma
B. incised wound D. abrasions
54. This is the Anti-sexual Harassment Act of 1995:
A. RA 8049 C. RA 8505
B. RA 7877 D. RA 6235
55. Which of the following body system coincide the stopping of a mental organ function of a person
to medically “dead”?
A. cardiac C. central nervous
B. respiratory D. digestive

56. The notion, which declares that human behavior tends to repeat itself, can serve as basis of the
investigator in determining:
A. Criminal behavior C. Nature of the crime
B. Modus operandi D. Criminal intent
57. This is the first that an investigator must do upon his arrival at the scene of the crime:
A. Secure the crime scene C. Interview of witness
B. Taking a picture D. Attend to emergency
58. It refers to the forcible expulsion of a fetus from the mother’s womb:
A. Infanticide C. Abortion
B. Parricide D. Murder
59. It is one of the oldest methods of suspect identification:
A. Cartographic sketch C. Rouge’s gallery
B. Composite D. Police lineup
60. You are Criminologist-Police Commissioned Officer who leads the execution of a valid search
warrant. Who must be present when a valid search warrant is conducted on a domicile?
A. The house owner
B. Any member of the house owner’s family
C. Two witnesses residing in the same community
D. All of the above
61. A and B are husband and wife, while working as security guard of Landbank, A felt sick one night
and decided to go home around midnight and saw B having sexual intercourse with a neighbor C.
A grabbed C and hacked the latter to death. As Criminologist-Investigator what crime if any would
you charged against A?
a. Homicide c. Parricide
b. Murder d. None because A is exempted from criminal liability
62. In what order would the steps be done by the investigator upon the finding of an evidential
cigarette butt?
1. making sketch
2. photographing
3. recording
A. 2, 1 and 3 C. 2, 3 and 1
B. 3, 2 and 1 D. 1, 2 and 3
63. What is the first action of an investigator upon arriving at a homicide scene?
A. Bring the dying victim in the hospital
B. Crime scene search
C. Witness interviewing
D. Identification of witness
64. In the course of investigating the house where a stabbing took place, police find what to be
bloodstains on the front door. Since the unknown perpetrator and the victim who may die were
both cut their identities need to be established through the bloodstains. How will the police collect
the stains?
A. Moisten a piece of clean cotton with a saline solution and rub gently
B. Remove the door and submit it to the crime lab
 C. Scrap the stain into white paper using a clean razor blade
D. Blot the stain with a clean tissue soaked in alcohol
65. Majority of the mistakes committed relative to evidence, take place:
1. during periods of transportation
2. in the collection of samples
3. a contaminated sampling
4. the wrong type material
A. 1 and 2 C. 2 and 4
B. 3 and 4 D. 2 and 3
66. Once the crime scene has been thoroughly documented and locations of evidence was noted, the
collection process begins and will usually starts with:
A. point of exit C. fragile evidence
B. large objects D. removal of cadaver
67. What is the final phase of crime scene investigation?
A. preliminary survey C. documentation of scene
B. collection of evidence D. release of crime scene
68. How can plaster cast and photograph be marked for identification?
A. Affixing a seal on the front C. No mark at all
B. Marking at the back D. Tagging
69. Which among the five human senses is considered the most objective?
A. Hearing C. Tasting
B. Smelling D. Seeing

70. Called “ Exclusionary Rules on Evidence” whereby evidence obtained in violation of any of this is
inadmissible, except one.
a. Rights against unreasonable search and seizures
b. Right to privacy and communication and correspondence
c. In-custodial investigation rights and right against self-incrimination
d. Right to counsel
71. Rape by fraudulent machinations under RA 8353 can be committed either among the choices
except one.
a. Promise to marry
b. Prostitute who has not been paid as agreed
c. Person in authority who arrest another and having sex with the latter with the promise of
release from custody
d. Sexual intercourse while the victim is unconscious or otherwise deprive of reason
72. Rights that can be waived except one.
a. Right to be informed of the provisions of RA 7438
b. Right to remain silent
c. Right to counsel
d. Right to be visited
73. What is referred as the dissection and examination of the body in order to determine the cause of
death?
A. Necropsy
B. Autopsy
C. Biopsy
D. Exhumation
74. Which of the following central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal
causing seizures?
A. Cataplexy
B. Catatonia
C. Epilepsy
D. Hysteria
75. What is the phenomenon where the body temperature of a corpse rises for up to about 2 hours
after death?
A. Rigor mortis
B. Post-mortem lividity
C. Post-mortem caloricity
D. Post-mortem placidity
76. SP04 Santos responded to a fight between neighbors in Pasay City, the subjects are using knives
and baseball bats, when the police was able to stop the fight one victim suffered a solid swelling
of clotted blood in the face when he was hit by the baseball bat. This condition refers to ______.
A. Dislocation
B. Bruises
C. Laceration
D. Hematoma

77. How many hours does the digestive system completely digest a medium meal?
A. 1 to 2 hours
B. 3 to 4 hours
C. 5 to 6 hours
D. 4 to 5 hours

78. Whenever there is fail of cartridge to explode or when there is a delay of explosion, what has
happened?
A. Hang fire
B. Recoil
C. Velocity
D. Intensity

79. Which of the following refers to the transmission of an electrical signal from a logging unit the
logging cable to the blasting cap and it happens when a high explosive is ignited?
A. Detonation
B. Explosion
C. Shattering
D. Deflagration

80. What is the type of wound characterized of wound by the tearing of soft body tissue, irregular and
jagged and most of the time contaminated with bacteria and debris from the object that caused the
cut?
A. Incised
B. Punctured
C. Open
D. Lacerated

81. What term is used when an adult female whose hymen is still intact or not broken, meaning never
experience sexual intercourse?
A. Virgo intact
B. Moral virginity
C. Intra virginity
D. Physical virginity

82. When a prostitute gives birth, since it is difficult to determine the identity father, child is considered
__________.
A. Unknown
B. Illegitimate
C. Fatherless
D. Manceres

83. Mr. Batausa walks like a robot, it was difficult for him to control the muscles of his legs. What do
you call his medical condition?
A. Spastic
 B. Espastic
C. Orthoplastic
D. Aplastic

84. Which is NOT one of the basis of criminal liability in arson?

A. Location of fire
B. Kind and character of the building burned
C. Location of the building
D. Whether the building burned was occupied or not

85. The stiffening of the body caused by severe trauma to the nervous system of intense stress is
__________.
A. Post mortem lividity
B. Cadaveric spasm
C. Livor mortis
D. Rigor mortis

86. What makes a sketch WRONG?

A. Indicate the North direction with an arrow.
B. To establish admissibility, the investigator must have the sketch verified.
C. Use KEY-capital letters of the alphabet for listing down items of evidence
D. Fill in all the details on your rough sketch at the scene. Final sketch may be prepared
at the office

87. Which of the following is a blunt force injury caused by dragging that tears off the tissue often
caused by very forceful blunt-instrument blows?
A. Abrasions
B. Contusions
C. Punctures
D. Lacerations

88. The largest volume of evidence received by the crime laboratory is in relation to ______.
A. murders and homicide
B. ballistics examination
C. illegal drugs
D. falsification of documents

89. The following are modes by which the identity of the suspect may be known EXCEPT _______.
A. By corpus delicti
B. Eyewitnesses
C. Confession or admission
D. Circumstantial evidence

90. Deaths resulting from asphyxia are due to ___________.

A. A sudden or gradual cessation of oxygen intake
B. Sudden and gradual loss perspiration
C. The hardening and clotting of the blood
D. Lack of platelets in the blood

91. Which of the following DOES NOT contribute to the reasons why the value of physical evidence is
diminished?
A. Human failure to appreciate it
B. Human failure to find it
 C. Human failure to study
D. Human failure to understand

92. When murders based on relationship are to be committed in a home, who among the following
MOST LIKELY could be murdered in the BEDROOM?
A. Parents-in-law
B. Male
C. Female
D. Children

93. The following are some of the elements of investigative process EXCEPT __________.
A. Collection
B. Recognition
C. Preservation
D. Presentation

94. What term is used to describe the frontal collision of vehicles?

A. Collision
B. Full impact collision
C. Head on collision
D. Frontal collision

95. Forensic specialists has the duty to train investigators and crime searchers in the ______ of
evidence.
A. Interpretation
B. Recognition
C. Cataloguing
D. Analysis

96. The BEST type of questioning that allows no possibility of misinterpretation is ____questioning.
A. Logical
B. Direct
C. Rational
D. Indirect

97. Death by Asphyxia MAY BE the result of the following strangulation, EXCEPT ________.
A. Hanging
B. Manual
C. Suffocation
D. Ligature

98. The following are considered as an “Elusive” object in crime scene investigation EXCEPT
__________.
A. Associative evidence
B. Testimonial evidence
C. Object evidence
D. Tracing evidence

99. What is the setoff doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of political, economic and other systems?
A. Politics
B. Religion
C. Ideology
D. Tradition
100. The illicit funds of PINUNO organized group is in the financial institution already. As the
investigator, and anticipating the next move of PINUNO, what is this process in money laundering
that Don Emilio will undertake in order to prevent the tracing back of illicit funds?
A. Integration
B. Placement
C. Conversion
D. Layering