1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Basic
2) The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes was created by:
- A) Dalton.
- B) Doyle.
- C) Darwin.
- D) Denton.
Answer: B
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Intermediate
3) Who is known as the "father of forensic toxicology"?
- A) Orfilia
- B) Locard
- C) Osborn
- D) Lattes
Answer: A
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Intermediate
4) Who developed the system known as anthropometry?
- A) Bertillon
- B) Goddard
- C) Gross
- D) Galton
Answer: A
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Intermediate
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Intermediate
9) Who established the first workable crime laboratory?
- A) Galton
- B) Bertillon
- C) Locard
- D) Osborn
Answer: C
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
Level: Intermediate
10) The exchange of evidence principle was theorized by:
- A) Gross.
- B) Locard.
- C) Galton.
- D) Osborn.
Answer: B
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
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
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Objective: Describe the organization and services of a typical comprehensive crime laboratory in the criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
14) Which would NOT be included in the work of the biology unit of a crime lab?
- A) Blood typing
- B) Comparison of hairs
- C) DNA profiling
- D) Fingerprint analysis
Answer: D
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Objective: Describe the organization and services of a typical comprehensive crime laboratory in the criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
