Freshman Forensic Science Tests
Test over History of Forensics, Intro to Forensics, Physical Evidence
Multiple Choice: Place the letter of the correct answer in the space.
_____ 1) On who was the 1st autopsy performed?
A) Aristotle B) Caeser C) Locard D) Plato
_____ 2) What is the study of disease?
A) astrology B) cytology C) pathology D) toxicology
_____ 3) In what country was the 1st forensic book written?
A) China B) England C) India D) U.S.A.
_____ 4) What was the comparison microscope made to look at?
A) blood
B) bullets C) fibers D) hair
_____ 5) What is the study of poisons?
A) astrology B) cytology C) pathology D) toxicology
_____ 6) When was the 1st fingerprinting bureau started?
A) 1547 B) 1840 C) 1897 D) 1954
_____ 7) Who said “when two things touch, something is left behind”?
A) Appel B) Aristotle C) Caeser D) Locard
_____ 8) What city was first in needing a college degree to be a policeman?
A) Atlanta B) Chicago C) New York D) L.A.
_____ 9) When were fingerprints 1st used for identification?
A) 1800 b.c. B) 1840 a.d. C) 1954 a.d. D) 1970 a.d.
_____ 10) Using science in the courtroom is called
A) ballistics B) criminalistics C) forensics D) statistics
_____ 11) What is the last thing a forensic scientist does at a scene?
A) bag the evidence B) draw the sketch C) take pictures D) shut the door
_____ 12) What is the most important rule for a crime scene photographer
A) do not disturb the scene B) tag the evidence C) take lots of notes
D) take lots of pictures.
_____ 13) What do we use to compare a sample with?
A) Chemicals B) control C) GSR D) variable
Test over Glass and Soil
Multiple Choice – Put the answer of the correct choice in the blank.
_____ 1) Anything that has mass and takes up space is
A) Chemical property B) element C) matter D) physical property
_____ 2) What is the simplest form of matter?
A) Atom B) electron C) element D) proton
_____ 3) How many times a wave passes a point in a given amount of time is called its
A) Crest B) frequency C) trough D) wavelength
_____ 4) When light bends it is called
A) Rarefaction B) reflection C) refraction D) remuneration
_____ 5) An energy particle of light is called a
A) Neutron B) pantheon C) photon D) proton
_____ 6) What gives a light particle its energy?
A) Crest B) frequency C) trough D) wavelength
_____ 7) What does soil tell a forensic scientist?
A) How is happened B) what happened C) where it happened D) who did it
_____ 8) Which of these is a chemical property?
A) Burning B) freezing
C) melting D) shredding
_____ 9) This electromagnetic wave creates heat.
A) Gamma B) infrared
C) radio D) ultraviolet
_____ 10) Lasers are made so they only have one
A) Amplitude B) frequency
C) wave D) wavelength
_____ 11) Which of these tests is usually done on glass?
A) Color B) density C) mass D) texture
_____ 12) Two sheets of glass with plastic in between them is called ____ glass.
A) Laminated B) plate C) stained D) tempered
_____ 13) Which of these is a physical property?
A) Melting B) boiling point C) color D) density E) all of the above
Test over Drug Chapter
Multiple Choice – write the letter of the correct answer in the blank.
_____ 1) In the 1960’s, what was the most widely used illegal drug?
A) Alcohol B) cocaine C) heroin D) marijuana
_____ 2) What percent of all forensic evidence is drug related?
A) 25
B) 50 C) 75 D) 85
_____ 3) Which one of these creates both physical and psychological dependence?
A) Alcohol B) amphetamines C) cocaine D) heroin
_____ 4) When drugs make you ill when you stop taking them is called
A) Addiction B) narcotics C) psychological dependence D) withdrawal
_____ 5) If tobacco and alcohol were illegal they would be a schedule ___ drug.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV
_____ 6) Which of these means “numbness or deadening”?
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogens D) narcotics
_____ 7) This relieves pain by slowing down the central nervous system.
A) Addiction B) amphetamines C) analgesic D) hallucinogens
_____ 8) Which drug was created to get people to give up heroin?
A) LSD B) methadone C) oxy-contin D) PCP
_____ 9) What is the most widely used illegal drug in the U.S.?
A) LSD
B) marijuana C) meth D) PCP
_____ 10) This part of the marijuana plant has the highest concentration of THC.
A) Flowers B) leaves C) resin D) seeds
_____ 11) Which of these is a synthetic drug?
A) Alcohol B) heroin C) LSD D) marijuana
_____ 12 Which of these was discovered by accident?
A) Alcohol B) amphetamine C) LSD D) marijuana
_____ 13) What is the easiest synthetic drug to make?
A) LSD B) meth C) oxy-contin D) PCP
_____ 14) What is it called when you inhale solvents from a bag?
A) Free basing B) huffing C) shooting up D) snorting
_____ 15) This was prescribed as a painkiller and a local anesthetic.
A) Cocaine B) heroin C) LSD D) marijuana
_____ 16) This stimulates the pleasure center of the brain.
A) Alcohol B) cocaine C) LSD D) marijuana
_____ 17) This is a club drug used by rapists.
A) Ketamine B) MDMA C) PCP D) Rohypnol
____ 18) Cocaine is a type of
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogen D) narcotic
_____ 19) Morphine is type of
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogen D) narcotic
_____ 20) This is a hallucinogen
A) Alcohol B) heroin C) marijuana D) meth
_____ 21) Which of these is prescribed for mentally ill patients?
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogen D) narcotic
_____ 22) Which drugs speed up the central nervous system?
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogen D) narcotic
_____ 23) What type of drug is a Quaalude?
A) Amphetamines B) barbiturates C) hallucinogen D) narcotic
_____ 24) Which of these is a schedule I drug?
A) Alcohol B) LSD C) PCP D) steroids
_____ 25 Which of these is a schedule II drug?
A) Alcohol B) LSD C) PCP D) steroids
_____ 26) Which of these is a schedule III drug?
A) Alcohol B) LSD C) PCP D) steroids
_____ 27) How many color tests for drugs are there?
A) 3 B) 5
C) 10 D) 20
_____ 28) What process separates and identifies the parts of a mixture?
A) Chromatography B) diffusion C) equilibrium D) spectrophotometry
_____ 29) Which type of test did we do in our lab?
A) Gas chromatography B) thin layer chromatography
C) infrared spectrophotometry D) mass spectrophotometry
_____ 30) Which test tells you exactly what the drug is?
A) Gas chromatography B) thin layer chromatography
C) infrared spectrophotometry D) mass spectrophotometry
_____ 31) What process shows how light is absorbed by chemical substances?
A) Chromatography B) diffusion C) equilibrium D) spectrophotometry
_____ 32) Which process shoots electrons at a substance to identify it?
A) Gas chromatography B) thin layer chromatography
C) infrared spectrophotometry D) mass spectrophotometry
Test over Blood, Genetics, and Sex Crimes
Multiple Choice – Write the correct answer in the blank at the beginning of the question.
_____ 1) When was blood typing first introduced?
A) 1891 B) 1901 C) 1910 D) 1941
_____ 2) What is the liquid portion of the blood called?
A) Plasma B) platelets C) red blood cells D) water
_____ 3) A protein that turn off or destroys a specific antigen is called the
A) Agglutination B) antibody C) DNA D) gene
_____ 4) The study of antigen-antibody reactions is
A) Criminology B) histology C) serology D) toxicology
_____ 5) why is precipitin a better test than gel diffusion?
A) Cheaper B) identifies animal blood C) quicker D) more sensitive
_____ 6) What is the most common blood type?
A) A B) B C) AB D) O
_____ 7) Which of these detects blood?
A)Acid phosphate B) alphanapthylphosphate C)phenolphthalein
D) phenotype
_____ 8) What type of antigen does blood type A have?
A) A B) B C) AB D) O
_____ 9) The inheriting of traits from parents is called
A) Alleles B) fertilization C) heredity D) serology
_____ 10) Where are the chromosomes located in the body?
A) Genes B) genotype C) nucleus D) phenotype
_____ 11) How many chromosomes do human muscle cells have?
A) 23 B) 25 C) 46 D) 50
_____ 12) This is what the trait physically looks like.
A) Heterozygous B) homozygous C) genotype D) phenotype
_____ 13) What test do we use to confirm the presence of semen?
A) Acid phosphate B) luminal C) phenolphthalein D) precipitin
_____ 14) How many areas of a rape victim are swabbed, combed, or cut for forensic
scientists to collect evidence?
A) 5 B) 8 C) 10
D) 12
Test Over Document Chapter
Multiple Choice – put the correct answer in the blank at the beginning of the question.
_____ 1) What type of paper do we use every day that has cloth in it?
A) money B) printer paper C) toilet paper D) writing paper
_____ 2) How can we tell one brand of ink from another?
A) chemical composition B) color C) electrostatic D) infrared
_____ 3) How can you see writing on burnt paper?
A) infrared B) microspectrophotometer C) ultraviolet D) you can’t
_____ 4) When are indented writings important?
A) book keeping B) graffiti C) money D) printed documents
_____ 5) Why does the federal government mark bills?
A) to keep them in order B) to track them C) to show which bank it is going to
D) to spy on us
_____ 6) Using chemicals to remove part or all of a document is called
A) bleeding B) branding C) dying D) washing
_____ 7) Blotting out or smearing over writing to make the original unreadable is
A) alteration B) erasure C) obliteration D) washing
_____ 8) A laser printer is a type of __________ printer.
A) daisy wheel B) impact C) non-impact D) thermal
_____ 9) When doing comparisons, how many copies do you need?
A) 5 B) 10 C) 50 D) 100
_____ 10) What do we look at on a fax to tell where it came from?
A) ITT B) THI C) THX D) TTI
Test over Toxicology
Multiple Choice - – put the correct answer in the blank at the beginning of the question.
_____ 1) What percent of automobile deaths are linked to alcohol use?
A) 15 B) 25 C) 40 D) 50
_____ 2) Changing chemicals in the body into other chemicals so it can be eliminated
from the body is
A) elimination B) excretion C) metabolism D) oxidation
_____ 3) Where in the body does alcohol go?
A) bones B) fat C) hair D) water in the body E) a,b&c
_____ 4) How the body get rid of waste products is
A) elimination B) excretion C) metabolism D) oxidation
_____ 5) What is the most reliable was of getting blood alcohol concentration?
A) from blood B) from bone C) from brain D) from breath
_____ 6) When was testing alcohol concentration from breath started?
A) 1912 B) 1945 C) 1954 D) 1965
_____ 7) Where in your body is most of the alcohol oxidized?
A) liver B) lungs C) small intestine D) stomach
_____ 8) The breathalyzer was created for ______ to use.
A) noncommercial drivers B) police C) scientists D) truckers
_____ 9) What percent of blood alcohol is used in all 50 states to show that you are
driving under the influence of alcohol?
A) .02 B).08 C) .15 D) .8
_____ 10) If toxicologists have no clue as to what a poison is, what do they do first?
A) confirmation test B) gas chromatography C) mass spectrometry
D) screening tests
_____ 11) When a person is dead, who decides which samples go to the toxicologist?
A) judge B) medical examiner C) police D) toxicologist
_____ 12) When it is in the ________, alcohol is evenly distributed through the body
A) arteries B) cells C) veins D) stomach
Test Over Fingerprints
Multiple Choice – Write the correct answer in the blank at the beginning of the
question.
_____ 1) Who were the first people to use fingerprints as a form of identification?
A) Americans B) British C) Chinese D) Indians
_____ 2) Who wrote the first textbook on fingerprints?
A) Bertillon B) Fauld C) Galton D) Henry
_____ 3) Where was the first fingerprint bureau in the U.S.?
A) Boston B) Chicago C) New York D) Los Angeles
_____ 4) Which layer of the skin makes fingerprints?
A) dermis B) dermal papillae C) epidermis D) fatty layer
_____ 5) Something changing from a solid to a gas without a liquid phase is called
A) displacement B) sublimation C) substitution D) synthesis
_____ 6) When are fingerprints created?
A) 1 year old B) 5 years old C) birth D) fetus
_____ 7) Who created the first system to identify an individual?
A) Bertillon B) Fauld C) Galton D) Henry
_____ 8) What is this?
A) central pocket whorl B) plain whorl C) ulnar loop D) tented arch
_____ 9) What is this?
A) central pocket whorl B) plain whorl C) ulnar loop D) tented arch
_____ 10) What is this?
A) central pocket whorl B) plain whorl C) ulnar loop D) tented arch