Forensic medicine and toxicology

20 important MCQs
BY Dr.Amina Rao
KMSMC,Sialkot


20 important MCQs
MCQ #1: All legal means which help to prove or disprove any matter
or fact the truth of which is submitted to judicial investigation is
called:
A. Deposition
B. Exhibit
C. Document
D. Evidence
MCQ # 2: if a person dies in police custody or in jail, an inquest must be
held by:
A. Police officer
B. Coroner
C. Magistrate
D. Police surgeon
MCQ # 3: Brown hair, fair complexion and Mesati cephalic all these
suggests the dead body of:
A. Chinese
B. Anglo Indian
C. European
D. None of the above
MCQ # 4: Length of the tibia X 100 =86.49 is called:
Length of Femur
A. Cephalic index
B. Crural index
C. Brachial index
D. Intermembral index


MCQ #5: Medico legal complications of inter sexuality arises in except:
A. Marriages
B. Rape
C. Inheritance
D. Civil rights
MCQ # 6: Post mortem examination is indicated in following except:
A. Informative general details
B. External examination
C. Internal examination
D. Exhumation
E. Malignancy
MCQ#7: In estimating time since death, the following points are helpful
except:
A. Presence or absence of rigor mortis
B. Extent and character of post mortem staining
C. Sites and features of cadaveric spasm
D. Rectal temperature and contents of the G.I.T
MCQ #8: Criminal abortion all the following organs are preserved except:
A. Involves the whole organs diffusely
B. Fallopian tubes
C. Ovaries
D. Broad ligament
E. Abortion stick





MCQ#9: The extremely complicated system of blood grouping bound
up with secretions and non-secretion and also with ABO antigens is:
A. The Lewis system
B. The P system
C. The Kell system
D. The Duffy system
MCQ# 10: The calculation of hours since death by the following formula
was proposed by:
Hours since death =99-rectal temperature
1.5
A. Gordon
B. Nystem
C. Glaister
D. Shapiro
MCQ#11: bruise differ from post mortem lividity in the following respects
except:
A. Effects of deeper tissue
B. Takes of the shape of the weapon
C. Appear raised above the level of surface
D. It occurs on the most dependent parts of the body
MCQ#12: Other name of rigor mortis is only one of the following:
A. Instantaneous rigor
B. Instantaneous rigidity
C. Cadaveric spasm
D. Heat stiffening






MCQ#13: The poison in which rigor mortis sets early and last longer is:
A. Carbon mono-oxide poisoning
B. Arsenic poisoning
C. Strychnine poisoning
D. Sulphuric acid poisoning

MCQ#14: Gagging is:
a) It means which enhances the effects of choking
b) It is almost always homicidal
c) An easy method of infanticide
d) Fracture of the ribs results in gagging
MCQ#15: Condition which may result from the exposure to high
temperature is:
A. Heat cramps
B. Heat pyrexia
C. Heat exhaustion
D. All of the above
MCQ # 16: Effective range of shot gun is:
A. 20-30 yards
B. 30-40 yards
C. 40-50 yards
D. 50-60 yards
MCQ#17: hyoid bone is ossified over the age of:
A. 30 years
B. 40 years
C. 50 years
D. 60 years


MCQ#18: Medico legal importance of impotence and sterility are the
following except:

A. Divorce
B. Rape
C. Nullity of marriage
D. All of the above
MCQ # 19: Regarding to medico legal points in a case of legitimacy all are
correct except:
A. The average duration of pregnancy
B. Super fecundation
C. Super foetation
D. Paternity
E. All are correct
MCQ # 20: Regarding to definition it is perverted desire to wear the clothes
of the opposite sex is called:
A. Fetishism
B. Masochism
C. Transvestism
D. Sadism








KEY OF 20 IMPORTANT MCQS OF FORENSIC
MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY:
1. D
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. E
7. C
8. D
9. D
10. C
11. D
12. C
13. C
14. D
15. C
16. B
17. B
18. D
19. E
20. C