NAME: ____________________________________________

YEAR/SEC: _________________________________________

QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS EXAMINATION

PRELIM EXAM

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer by encircling the letter of your choice.

1. What is the Latin word of document?

a. Docere b. Documentum c. Doces Tecum d. Duces Documentum
2. He was considered as a father of Scientific Examination of Questioned Document?
a. Jame V.P. Conway b. Albert Sherman Osborn c. Dr. Wilson R. Harrison d. Ordway Hilton
3. A term suggesting that there is an argument or controversy over the document, and strictly speaking this is the true meaning.
a. Document b. Questioned Document c. Disputed Document d. All of the above.
4. Refers to any document completely written and signed by one person.
a. Standard b. Exemplar c. Holographic Document d. Reference Collection
5. Any material containing marking, symbols, or signs either visible, partially visible that may present or ultimately convey a meaning
to someone, maybe in the form of pencil, ink writing, typewriting or printing on paper.
a. Document b. Questioned Document c. Disputed Document d. All of the above.
6. The French word “docere” means
a. to teach b. To instruct c. to file d. to write
7. The angle or inclination of the axis of the letters relative to the baseline
a. Slope b. Slant c. Strokes d. Both a and b
8. Going back over a defective portion of a written stroke
a. Pen Scope b. Retrace c. Retracing d. Patching0
9. What is a specimen of writing in which the letter are disconnected in form?
a. Cursive b. Manuscript c. Hand lettering d. Block capital
10. It is the visible effect of bodily movement which is an almost subconscious expression of fixed mental expression of certain ideas
associated with script.
a. Writing b. Typewriting c. Alignment d. Handwriting

TEST II:
FILL IN THE BLANKS. Supply the missing information on each articles. Based your answer on the box below.

1. In the case of___________________________: any written document by which a right is established or an obligation is
extinguished.
2. In the case of __________________________: every deed or instrument executed by person by which some disposition or
agreement is proved, evidenced or setforth.
3. In relation to Criminal Jurisprudence under the _________________: any physical embodiment of information or ideas; e.g. a
letter, a contract, a receipt, a book of account, a blur print, or an X-ray plate (Black’s Law Dictionary).
4. _________________________________________ - notarized by a notary public or competent public official with solemnities required
by law. (Cacnio vs. Baens, 5 Phil. 742)
5. __________________________________________ - issued by the government or its agents or its officers having the authority to do
so and the offices, which in accordance with their creation, they are authorized to issue and be issued in the performance of their duties.
6. PRIVATE DOCUMENT -executed by a private person without the intervention of a notary public or of any person legally authorized,
by which documents, some disposition or agreement is proved, evidenced or set forth (US vsOrera, 11 Phil. 596).
7. COMMERCIAL DOCUMENT - executed in accordance with the _______________________________________, containing disposition
of commercial rights or obligations.
8. Are condensed and compact set of authentic specimens which, if adequate and proper, should contain a cross section of the
material from a known source.
9. Any document completely written and signed by one person; also known as a holograph. In a number of jurisdictions a holographic
will can be probated without anyone having witnessed its execution.
10. A term suggesting that there is an argument or controversy over the document, and strictly speaking this is true meaning. In this
text, as well as through prior usage, however, “disputed document” and “questioned document” are used interchangeably to signify a
document that is under special scrutiny.
11. THE ELEMENT OF THE WRITING MOVEMENT WHICH IS MARKED BY REGULAR OR PERIODIC RECURRENCES: MAYBE SMOOTH,
INTERMITTENT, OR JERKY IN ITS QUALITY; THE FLOURISHING SUCCESSION OF MOTION WHICH ARE RECORDED IN A WRITTEN RECORD.
12. WIDENING OF THE INK STROKES DUE TO THE ADDED PRESSURE ON A FLEXIBLE PEN POINT OR TO THE USE OF A STUB PEN.
13. THE ANGLE OR INCLINATION OF THE AXIS OF THE LETTERS RELATIVE TO THE BASELINE: SLANT TO THE LEFT; SLANT TO THE RIGHT;
AND VERTICAL SLANT.
14. ONE IN WHICH THE FACTS APPEARING THEREIN MAY NOT BE TRUE, AND ARE CONTESTED EITHER IN WHOLE OR PART WITH RESPECT
TO ITS AUTHENTICITY, IDENTITY, OR ORIGIN. IT MAY BE A DEED, CONTRACT, WILL, ELECTION BALLOTS, MARRIAGE CONTRACT, CHECK,
VISAS, APPLICATION FORM, CHECK WRITER, CERTIFICATES, ETC.

SLANT PUBLIC DOCUMENT PEOPLE VS. NILLOSQUIN, CA, 48 O.G. 4453

OFFICIAL DOCUMENT SHADING BEST EVIDENCE RULE
PEOPLE VS. MORENO, CA, 338 O.G. 119 STANDARD HOLOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT
CODE OF COMMERCE OR ANY MERCANTILE LAW DISPUTED DOCUMENTS
RHYTHM QUESTIONED DOCUMENT