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Mechanical Injuries Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Brush burn is a type of:

  1. Thermal injury
  2. Mechanical injury
  3. Chemical injury
  4. Electrical injury

Answer: 2. Mechanical injury

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Question 2. Medicolegally the most significant wound is:

  1. Incised wound
  2. Lacerated wound
  3. Abrasion
  4. Stab wound

Answer: 3. Abrasion

Question 3. The most significant difference between an incised wound and incised looking laceration over the scalp is:

  1. Irregular margins
  2. Undermined edges
  3. Marginal abrasion
  4. Crushed hair bulb

Answer: 4. Crushed hair bulb

Question 4. A split laceration is usually seen over all the regions, except;

  1. Chin
  2. Forehead
  3. Shin
  4. Buttock

Answer: 4. Buttock

Question 5. The shape of a stab wound mostly depends upon;

  1. Mode of withdrawal
  2. Amount of force
  3. Direction of force
  4. The shape of the knife

Answer: 1. Mode of withdrawal

Question 6. The green color of a healing contusion is due to;

  1. Hemoglobin
  2. Hemosiderin
  3. Biliverdin
  4. Bilirubin

Answer: 3. Biliverdin

Question 7. The evidential proof of the weapon by comparing the hair adherent over it with the plucked scalp hair around the laceration is;

  1. Primary evidence
  2. Direct evidence
  3. Hirsute evidence
  4. Secondary evidence

Answer: 3. Hirsute evidence

Question 8. Scab or crust of abrasion appears brown;

  1. Between 12-24 hours
  2. Between 2-3 days
  3. Between 4-5 days
  4. Between 5-7 days

Answer: 2. Between 2-3 days

Question 9. The wound caused by a curved weapon such as a sickle is;

  1. Stab wound
  2. Incised wound
  3. Stab and incised wound
  4. Laceration

Answer: 3. Stab and incised wound

Question 10. Concealed puncture wounds are seen over the following regions except;

  1. Nape of neck
  2. Inner canthus of the eye
  3. Wrist
  4. Vagina

Answer: 3. Wrist

Question 11. Which one of the following is true of antemortem abrasions?

  1. Bright red color
  2. Exudation of serum is more
  3. Vital reactions are seen
  4. All of the above

Answer: 4. All of the above

Question 12. A person will bruise readily in all the following except;

  1. Hemophilia
  2. Scurvy
  3. Vitamin K deficiency
  4. Anemia

Answer: 4. Anemia

Question 13. Minor trauma results in major damage in all the following sites, except;

  1. Neck
  2. Abdomen
  3. Back of trunk
  4. Scrotum

Answer: 3. Back of trunk

Question 14. Parallel bruise (double line with an intervening space) could be caused by;

  1. Whip
  2. Wrist
  3. Cycle chain
  4. Double-edged weapon

Answer: 1. Whip

Question 15. All are true regarding a bruise, except;

  1. Turns blue in a day
  2. Green in 5 to 7 days
  3. The final color is yellow
  4. By the end of two weeks, only a scar is present

Answer: 4. By the end of two weeks, only a scar is present

Question 16. Bite marks is an example of;

  1. Pressure abrasion
  2. Grazed abrasion
  3. Scratch abrasion
  4. Patterned abrasion

Answer: 4. Patterned abrasion

Question 17. No color change is seen in subconjunctival hemorrhage is due to;

  1. Continuous CO2 supply
  2. A little amount of blood is present
  3. Continuous O2 supply
  4. Color changes do occur but are not visible to the naked eye

Answer: 3. Continuous O2 supply

Regional Injuries Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. The most common intracranial hemorrhage following a blunt impact to the head is:

  1. EDH
  2. SDH
  3. SAH
  4. Brainstem hemorrhage

Answer: 2. SDH

Question 2. The commonest source of hemorrhage in extradural hemorrhage is:

  1. Anterior meningeal artery
  2. Posterior meningeal artery
  3. Middle meningeal artery
  4. Middle meningeal vein

Answer: 3. Middle meningeal artery

Question 3. Fracture of the overlying skull bone is virtually always present with:

  1. Epidural hemorrhage
  2. Subdural hemorrhage
  3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  4. Intracerebral hemorrhage

Answer: 1. Epidural hemorrhage

Question 4. The most common cause of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage is due to rupture of:

  1. Arteriosclerotic aneurysm:
  2. Berry aneurysm
  3. Cirsoid aneurysm
  4. Mycotic aneurysm

Answer: 2. Berry aneurysm

Question 5. The following are the similarities of epidural and subdural hemorrhage,:

  1. Symptoms of cerebral compression
  2. Traumatic episode
  3. Swelling of the temporalis muscle
  4. Existence of lucid interval

Answer: 4. Existence of lucid interval

Question 6. The most common cause of death of a boxer during or soon after the fight is:

  1. Epidural hemorrhage
  2. Subdural hemorrhage
  3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  4. Intracerebral hemorrhage

Answer: 2. Subdural hemorrhage

Question 7. One of the following types of skull fracture is caused by combined effects of local indentation and general deformation of skull:

  1. Spider web fracture
  2. Depressed fracture
  3. Depressed comminuted fracture
  4. Fissured fracture

Answer: 1. Spider web fracture

Question 8. One of the following traumatic lesions is virtually never due to contrecoup force:

  1. Brain contusion
  2. Brain laceration
  3. Subdural hemorrhage
  4. Epidural hemorrhage

Answer: 4. Epidural hemorrhage

Question 9. The commonest site of contrecoup fracture in an occipital fall is:

  1. Parietal bone
  2. Temporal bone
  3. Orbital roof
  4. Ethmoidal bone

Answer: 3. Orbital roof

Question 10. Whiplash injury occurs in:

  1. Pedestrian hit from the front
  2. Pedestrian hit from behind
  3. The occupant of a car
  4. Any of the above

Answer: 3. Occupant of a car

Question 11. A sack of rice falls on the head of a 22-year-old male. The likely fracture is:

  1. Comminuted
  2. Sutural
  3. Depressed
  4. Gutter

Answer: 2. Sutural

Question 12. Concussion is characterized by:

  1. Contusion of brain
  2. Post-traumatic amnesia
  3. Irreversible brain damage
  4. None of the above

Answer: 2. Post-traumatic amnesia

Question 13. Fracture ala signature is:

  1. Gutter fracture
  2. Depressed fracture
  3. Ring fracture
  4. Sutural separation

Answer: 2. Depressed fracture

Question 14. Pond’s fracture is most common in:

  1. Children
  2. Elderly
  3. Adolescent
  4. Middle-aged women

Answer: 1. Children

Question 15. A depressed fracture of the skull is caused by:

  1. A light blunt force
  2. A heavy blunt force
  3. Fall on a level road
  4. A heavy blunt object with a small striking surface

Answer: 4. A heavy blunt object with a small striking surface

Question 16. Gutter fractures of the skull are most often seen with:

  1. Axe injury
  2. Stick injury
  3. Stone injury
  4. Bullet injury

Answer: 4. Bullet injury

Question 17. Impact fractures are characteristically found in:

  1. Pelvis
  2. Skull
  3. Vertebra
  4. Calcaneum

Answer: 2. Skull

Question 18. The commonest site of rupture of the heart due to blunt injury chest is:

  1. Right ventricle
  2. Left ventricle
  3. Left auricle
  4. Right auricle

Answer: 4. Right auricle

Medicolegal Aspects Of Injuries Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. The similarity between legal and medical definitions of injury is:

  1. Injury to the body
  2. Injury to the mind
  3. Damage to property
  4. Damage of Reputation

Answer: 1. Injury to the body

Question 2. A 25-year-old person sustained an injury in the right eye. He developed right corneal opacity following the injury. The left eye was already having poor vision. Corneoplasty of the right eye was done and vision was restored Medicolegally such injury is labeled as:

  1. Grievous
  2. Simple
  3. Dangerous
  4. Serious

Answer: 1. Grievous

Question 3. Killing in self-defense comes under

  1. Murder
  2. Justifiable homicide
  3. Excusable homicide
  4. Culpable homicide

Answer: 3. Excusable homicide

Question 4. A person has been brought in casualty with history of road accidents. He had lost consciousness transiently and then gained consciousness, but again became unconscious. Most likely, he is having brain hemorrhage of:

  1. Intracerebral
  2. Subarachnoid
  3. Subdural
  4. Extradural

Answer: 4. Extradural

Question 5. Self-infected artificial bruises are characterized by all of the following except:

  1. Small in number
  2. Not extensive
  3. Only on accessible parts
  4. Typical color changes

Answer: 4. Typical color changes

Question 6. Causing death under the following conditions does not amount to murder, except

  1. Premedication
  2. Provocation
  3. Private defense
  4. Public justice

Answer: 1. Premedication

Question 7. The following are the medicolegal significance of defense wounds:

  1. Sign of instinctive reaction of the victim
  2. Mandatory in all homicides
  3. The nature of the weapon can be identified
  4. The relative position of the victim and assailant can be presumed

Answer: 2. Mandatory in all homicides

Question 8. The following grievous wounds can be certified without consultation of an expert, except:

  1. Simple fracture of the tibia
  2. Erectile dysfunction
  3. Partially broken central incisor
  4. Nasal bone fracture

Answer: 2. Erectile dysfunction

Question 9. The tentative cut is a feature of:

  1. Fall from the height
  2. Homicidal assault
  3. Accidental injury
  4. Suicidal attempt

Answer: 4. Suicidal attempt

Forensic Ballistics Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Black gunpowder is composed of all the following, except:

  1. Sulfur
  2. Potassium nitrate
  3. Nitrocellulose
  4. Charcoal

Answer: 3. Nitrocellulose

Question 2. The following are features of a gunshot exit wound, except:

  1. Bigger than the entry wound
  2. Everted edges
  3. Protrusion of soft tissues
  4. Singeing and smudging

Answer: 4. Singeing and smudging

Question 3. The purpose of choking of a firearm is to:

  1. Prevent the early dispersion of pellets
  2. Minimize sound
  3. Minimize smoke emission
  4. Cause maximum destruction

Answer: 1. Prevent the early dispersion of pellets

Question 4. Death by suicidal gunshot wound usually can be confirmed by:

  1. Fingerprint on the gun
  2. Blood on the gun
  3. Gun in hand
  4. Gunshot residues in the hand

Answer: 4. Gunshot residues in the hand

Question 5. Punched out inner table and craterlike outer table in the skull means:

  1. Chop wound
  2. Pond fracture
  3. Entrance wound
  4. Exit wound

Answer: 4. Exit wound

Question 6. The presence of a wad inside the entrance wound suggests the following except:

  1. Contact shot
  2. Close shot
  3. Smoothbore firearm
  4. Cannot be homicidal

Answer: 4. Cannot be homicidal

Question 7. Tandem bullet is:

  1. Where the nose is cut off
  2. Back-to-back fired bullet
  3. Is seen in the case of defective weapon
  4. Present in body for long time

Answer: 2. Back-to-back fired bullet

Question 8. What is a paradox gun:

  1. A shotgun with a smooth barrel
  2. A shotgun whose muzzle end is rifled
  3. A shotgun whose muzzle wider
  4. A rifle that fires a single ball

Answer: 2. A shotgun whose muzzle end is rifled

Question 9. Gunshot residue on hands can be detected by:

  1. Phenolphthalein test
  2. Dermal nitrate test
  3. Benzidine test
  4. Hydrogen activation analysais

Answer: 2. Dermal nitrate test

Question 10. In which of the following weapons empty cartridge case is ejected after firing:

  1. Short gun
  2. Revolver
  3. Pistol
  4. Rifle

Answer: 3. Pistol

Question 11. In firearm injury, entry wound blackening is due to:

  1. Flame
  2. Hot gases
  3. Smoke
  4. Unburnt powder

Answer: 3. Smoke

Question 12. Blackening and tattooing of skin and clothing can be best demonstrated by:

  1. Luminol spray
  2. Infrared photography
  3. Ultraviolet light
  4. Magnifying lens

Answer: 2. Infrared photography

Question 13. A stellate wound is produced when the projectile is discharged at a distance of:

  1. Contact range
  2. Close range (up to 1 meter)
  3. Near range (up to 4 meters)
  4. Long range (above 4 meters)

Answer: 1. Contact range

Question 14. The caliber of a rifled firearm is calculated by:

  1. Distance between a land and a groove
  2. Distance between two diagonally opposite lands
  3. Distance between two diagonally opposite grooves
  4. The number of lead balls that could be made from one pound of lead

Answer: 2. Distance between two diagonally opposite lands

Question 15. The bullet that fragments on impact is called;

  1. Duplex bullet
  2. Dum-dum bullet
  3. Frangible bullet
  4. Soft point bullet

Answer: 3. Frangible bullet

Question 16. In a firearm injury, there is burning, blackening, and tattooing around the wound, and is circular in shape is;

  1. Close shot
  2. Close contact shot
  3. Contact shot
  4. Distant shot

Answer: 1. Close shot

Question 17. The brain of the cartridge is;

  1. Gunpowder
  2. Projectile
  3. Primer
  4. Wad

Answer: 3. Primer

Question 18. All are tests for the detection of metals around the entry wound is done by all, except;

  1. Harrison and Glory test
  2. Atomic absorption spectrometry
  3. Neutron activation analysis
  4. Paraffin test

Answer: 4. Paraffin test

Question 19. In blast injuries, the most common internal organ to be affected is;

  1. Eardrum
  2. Stomach
  3. Lungs
  4. Liver

Answer: 1. Eardrum

Thermal Injuries Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. All of the following are systemic effects of heat exposure, except:

  1. Internal organ burn
  2. Heat syncope
  3. Heat exhaustion
  4. Heat rigor

Answer: 1. Internal organ burn

Question 2. The following are signs of antemortem burns except:

  1. Soot in the stomach
  2. Soot in the bronchi
  3. Pugilistic attitude
  4. Carboxyhemoglobin

Answer: 3. Pugilistic attitude

Question 3. Flame burns differ from scalding in the following aspects, except:

  1. Soot deposition
  2. Blistering
  3. Charring
  4. Singeing

Answer: 2. Blistering

Question 4. The following are the findings of heat hematoma in antemortem burns, except:

  1. Charring of the overlying bone
  2. Spongy in texture
  3. Chocolate brown in color
  4. Absence of carboxyhemoglobin

Answer: 4. Absence of carboxyhemoglobin

Question 5. What is wrong about heat hematoma?

  1. It is antemortem
  2. Friable
  3. Seen in charred body
  4. Frontal area

Answer: 1. It is antemortem

Question 6. A 25 years female was found in a room with 100% burns on her body. The tongue was protruding out; the body was in a pugilistic attitude with heat ruptures, peeling of the skin, and heat hematoma and heat fractures of the skull. Carboxy¬hemoglobin was 25% and soot particles were present in the trachea. Which of the combinations of two findings will establish that the burns were antemortem in nature:

  1. Heat hematoma and heat ruptures
  2. Heat fracture of the skull and peeling of skin
  3. Heat hematoma and pugilistic attitude
  4. Carboxyhemoglobin (25%) and soot particles in the trachea.

Answer: 4. Carboxyhemoglobin (25%) and soot particles in the trachea.

Electrical And Lightening Injuries Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Which one of the following causes “joule burns”;

  1. Lightening
  2. Electrocution
  3. Radiation injury
  4. Thermal injury

Answer: 2. Electrocution

Question 2. Arborescent burns is caused by;

  1. Physical force
  2. Hot flame
  3. Radiation
  4. Electricity

Answer: 4. Electricity

Question 3. A dead body is found to have marks like the branching of a tree on front of the chest. The most likely cause of death could be due to;

  1. Fire-arm
  2. Lightening injury
  3. Injuries due to bomb blast
  4. Road traffic accident

Answer: 2. Lightening injury

Question 4. Filigree burns are;

  1. Lightening injury
  2. Thermal burns
  3. Chemical burns
  4. Radiation burns

Answer: 1. Lightening injury

 

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