Questioned Document Reviewer

1. The art of determining individual characteristic traits of a person

based on his or her handwriting is called.
A. Calligraphy
B. Graphlogic
C. Graphology
D. Caligrapher
2. The art of writing letters and words with decorative strokes is
called
A. Calligraphy
B. Graphlogic
C. Graphology
D. Caligrapher
3. Handwriting samples made at the request and under the
supervision of lawyers, the police, document examiners and
investigators for the purpose of comparison with questioned
writing.
A. Collected writings
B. Stolen writings
C. Request writings
D. Forced writings
4. Samples the individual produced for some other unrelated reason
generally in the course of their day to day activities.
A. Collected writings
B. Stolen writings
C. Request writings
D. Forced writings
5. An attempt to disguise one's handwriting or copy someone else's i
A. Simulated
B. Evaluated
C. Disguised
D. Compared
6. Any signature, handwriting, typewriting or other mark whose source
or authenticity is in dispute or doubtful.
A. Requested Document
B. Disputed Document
C. Collected document
D. Questioned document

7. Any abnormal repetitive shaking movement of the body usually the

hands which affects handwriting.
A. Tremor
B. Epilepsy
C. Convulsion
D. Parkinson
8. One of the following is not an indicator of forgery.
A. Smoothness of paper
B. Penlifts and hesitation
C. Tremor
D. Patching
9. The action producing a copy of a document, signature,
banknote, or work of art with intent to deceive.
A. Counterfeiting
B. Simulation
C. Forgery
D. Deceiving
10.Made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with
the intention to deceive or defraud.
A. Counterfeiting
B. simulation
C. Forgery
D. Imitating
Remember the following:
1. Graphology - The art of determining individual characteristic
traits of a person based on his or her handwriting is called.
2. Calligraphy - The art of writing letters and words with decorative
strokes.
3. Request writings - Handwriting samples made at the request and
under the supervision of lawyers, the police, document examiners
and investigators for the purpose of comparison with questioned
writing.
4. Collected writings - Samples the individual produced for some
other unrelated reason generally in the course of their day to
day activities.
5. Simulated - An attempt to disguise one's handwriting or copy

someone Else's.
6. Questioned document - Any signature, handwriting, typewriting
or other mark whose source or authenticity is in dispute or
doubtful.
7. Tremor - Any abnormal repetitive shaking movement of the body
usually the hands which affects handwriting.
8. Indicators of forgery
1. Blunt starts and stops
2. Penlifts and hesitation
3. Tremor
4. Speed and Pressure
5. Patching
9. Forgery - The action producing a copy of a document, signature,
banknote, or work of art with intent to deceive.
10.Counterfeiting - Made in exact imitation of something valuable
or important with the intention to deceive or defraud.

1. The place where the writer grasps the barrel of the pen and the
angle at which he holds it is called
A. Pen lift
B. Pen hold
C. Print script
D. Pren pressure
2. One that is executed in accordance with the Code of Commerce
or any Mercantile Law, containing disposition of commercial
rights or obligations.
A. Commercial document
B. Holographic wills
C. Notarial wills
D. Private document
3. The term "insertion" and "interlineations" include the addition of
writing and other material between lines or paragraphs or the
addition of whole page to a document.
A. Insertion or interlineations
B. Integration
C. Obliteration
D. None of these
4. In questioned document examination, what is an "OFF-HAND
OPINION"?
A. A conclusion that is not based on scientific examination
B. A mere speculation of facts contained in the document
C. A scientific findings as to the content of document
D. All of these
5. It is a kind of handwriting that is characterized by being connected
in which one letter is joined to the next.
A. Script
B. Block
C. Vigorous
D. Cursive
6. A writer may deliberately try to alter his usual writing habits in
hopes of hiding his identity. The results, regardless of their
effectiveness are termed as ___.
A. Down stroke
B. Gestalt
C. Disguised writing
D. Graphology
7. The element of the writing movement which is marked by regular

or periodic recurrences. It may be classed as smooth, intermittent,

or jerky in its quality.
A. Shading
B. Simplification
C. Slope slant
D. Rhythm
8. What do we call the series of lines or curves written in a single
letter; one of the lines of an alphabet or series of lines or curves
within a single letter; the path traced by the pen on the paper?
A. Pen lift
B. Slope
C. Delta
D. Stroke
9. One is not a type of handwriting "Standards"
A. Collected Standards
B. Requested standards
C. Post litem motan exemplars
D. All of these
10. The act/process of making the content/s of a document not the
intended content.
A. falsification
B. counterfeiting
C. forgery
D. erasure
11. The study of handwriting to determine one's personality traits
is called
A. handwriting analysis
B. graphology
C. dactyloscopy
D. fecalysis