- 1. The amount of collected writing standards to be obtained must be between
A) at least 3 times
B) 15 to 20
C) Within 5 years before and after
- 2. In obtaining collected standards, we should collect writing standards which is of contemporaneous date with out questioned document. This means
A) collect writing standards written before five years from the questioned material
B) collect writing standards written after five years from the questioned material
C) collect writing standards prepared after 10 years from the questioned material
D) collect writing standards prepared within 5 years before and after the questioned material
- 3. Which of the following is an example of individual characteristics?
A) Presence of and influence of foreign
B) Abbreviations of letters
C) handwriting
D) none of these
E) Shape, position, size, and angle of i-dot and t-crosses
- 4. Searching for evidential document is primarily the responsibility of:
A) Document Examiner
B) investigator
C) suspect
- 5. In obtaining dictated standards, dictation must be atleast 3 times
A) false
B) true
- 6. In obtaining requested standards, dictate all the content of the questioned material.
A) true
B) false
- 7. Which of the following is not included in the principles involved in the process of identification?
A) document
B) all of these
C) none of these
D) characteristic
E) sources of standards
- 8. Suggest that there is an argument or controversy over the document and strictly speaking this is its true meaning
A) DISPUTED DOCUMENT
B) EXEMPLARS
C) STANDARD DOCUMENT
- 9. Those which are given and made upon the request of an investigator for purpose of making comparative examination with the request writing
A) PROCURED STANDARDS
B) REQUESTED STANDARDS
C) COLLECTED STANDARDS
- 10. Are those introduced into the handwriting consciously or unconsciously by the writer. They are highly personal or peculiar are unlikely to occur in other instances.
A) common characteristics
B) individual characteristics
C) class characteristics
- 11. Is an artificial lamp, with its radiation capable of creating a florescence depending upon the material under consideration. Its wavelength appear just before the blue-violet color of the visible spectrum.
A) shadowgraph
B) magnifying lens
C) table lamps
D) ultra-violet lamp
E) transmitted light gadget.
- 12. An instrument which can show three dimensional enlargement of the documents or writings under examination
A) measuring test plate
B) stereoscopic binocular microscope
C) transmitted light gadget.
D) magnifying lens
- 13. A charred document can no longer be read.
A) true
B) false
- 14. Keep documents folded in protective envelope
A) false
B) true
- 15. Allow anyone to make chemical or other test. You can treat or dust the document for latent fingerprints before consulting a document examiner.
A) false
B) true
- 16. Is one of the more common instrument used by bank personnel of other banks. At least five times magnification, with built in lighting and base are found to be more useful.
A) stereoscopic binocular microscope
B) transmitted light gadget.
C) magnifying lens
D) measuring test plate
- 17. The ideal protective container for evidence document is a plastic envelope.
A) false
B) true
- 18. Improper or careless handling of document is usually because of ignorance of the investigator.
A) false
B) true
- 19. Examination of charred or obliterated writing can best be achieved by:
A) ultra violet lamt
B) transmitted light gadget.
C) infra red viewer
- 20. Photograph makes clear what is otherwise hidden or indistinct.
A) false
B) true
- 21. Infra red light is very useful in showing the watermarks present in the document
A) true
B) false
- 22. A faded writing can no longer be read.
A) true
B) false
- 23. What are the ways of mutilating a document?
A) by punching or cutting for storage purposes
B) by creasing or tearing
C) all of these
D) by repeated refolding
- 24. Any number of accurate reproduction of the documents could be made through photographs, thus affording unlimited opportunity for study, comparison and evaluation by any number of examiners which could not be possible by using the documents alone.
A) true
B) false
- 25. The evidence document can be cut apart as may be desired and the various parts classified for comparison.
A) false
B) true
- 26. by means of photographs, a writing in questions can be accurately be enlarged so that every quality and characteristics of it can be clearly and properly interpreted whether the facts so shown points to genuineness or to forgery. false true
A) true
B) false
- 27. The flexor and extensor muscle combine with the __________ to form the lateral strokes.
A) flexor muscles
B) extensor muscles
C) lumbrical muscles
- 28. The visible effect of ability of movement which is an almost unconscious expression of fixed muscular habits reacting from fixed mental impression of certain ideas associated with script form.
A) HANDWRITING
B) SIGNIFICANT WRITING HABITS
C) SYSTEM OF WRITING
D) COPY BOOK FORM
- 29. What is really being done by the writer in the first step of writing?
A) thinking
B) writing
C) drawing/copying
- 30. A condition where one losses the ability or power to write although he could still grasp the writing instrument
A) geographia
B) agraphia
C) asphyxia
D) hypergraphia
- 31. Class of signature use in acknowledgement of important document such as will, check, contract and business paper
A) Informal signature
B) Formal signature
C) Careless Scribbles
D) Cursory signature
- 32. A class of signature for routinary document or made for personal correspondence
A) Complete Signature
B) Careless Scribbles
C) Formal signature
D) Informal signature
- 33. Forged signature where no attempt has been made to make a copy of the genuine signature of the person purporting to sign the document commonly referred to as
A) SIMPLE FORGERY
B) SIMULATED FORGERY
C) TRACED FORGERY
- 34. Group of muscles that pull the pen down to form the downward stroke.
A) extensor muscles
B) flexor muscle
C) lumbrical muscles
- 35. Forged signature which closely resembles the genuine signature since they have been produced by a tracing process referred to as
A) TRACED FORGERY
B) SIMPLE FORGERY
C) SIMULATED FORGERY
- 36. Refers to a person’s name written by him on a document as a sign of acknowledgement.
A) Dry Seal
B) Stamp
C) Signature
- 37. A group of extensor muscles push up the pen to form the:
A) upward strokes
B) lateral strokes
C) downward strokes
- 38. What is the focus of the writer in the second step of handwriting?
A) form of the letters
B) subject written to be written
C) execution of the various design of letters
- 39. Use for mail carrier, delivery of goods, purchase of equipment, an autograph collector
A) Careless Scribbles –
B) Formal signature
C) Cursory signature
- 40. Use for mail carrier, delivery of goods, purchase of equipment, an autograph collector
A) Formal signature
B) Careless Scribbles –
C) Cursory signature
- 41. The result of a very complicated series of acts being as a whole or a combination of certain forms which are the very visible results of mental and muscular habit acquired by long continued painstaking effort
A) WRITING
B) SYSTEM OF WRITING
C) COPY BOOK FORM
D) SIGNIFICANT WRITING HABITS
- 42. A writer can not improve his handwriting.
A) false
B) true
- 43. A writer cannot exceed his maximum writing best.
A) false
B) true
- 44. The purpose for which writings were intended does not affect the degree of variation in them.
A) true
B) false
- 45. Genuine writing will not exhibit tremor.
A) true
B) false
- 46. The individuality of handwriting is the basis of all:
A) inquiries
B) identification
C) examination
- 47. Those changes which continue only while the basic cause is affecting the writer.
A) tremor of age
B) permanent changes
C) transitory changes
- 48. Both the circumstances under which the writing was prepared and the factors which influence the writer's ability to write at the time of the execution.
A) writing conditions
B) writing instruments
C) natural variations
D) writing movements
- 49. Which of the following conditions may exhibit transitory changes in a person's handwriting?
A) temporary physical illness
B) all of these
C) intoxication
D) nervous tension
E) fatigue
- 50. Attempted disguise leads to an inferior quality of handwriting
A) false
B) true
- 51. Which of the following is not included in genuine tremor?
A) tremor of illiteracy
B) tremor of fraud
C) tremor of weakness
D) tremor of age
- 52. Deviation from uniform strokes or the lack of smoothness perfectly apparent even without magnification
A) idiosyncracies
B) variations
C) shading
D) tremors
- 53. The degree of variation in writing tends to increase with more rapid and less careful execution
A) true
B) false
- 54. User
Tremor of illiteracy is due to:
A) hesitation
B) unfamiliarity with the writing process
C) poor eyesight
D) weakness
- 55. Uniformity of writing qualities in extended specimen of handwriting is an indication of disguised writing
A) false
B) true
- 56. Deterioration of an individual's writing affects only one or two elements of writing properties.
A) true
B) false
- 57. The gradual changes in handwriting which occurs during a person’s lifetime are common to all writers
A) true
B) false
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