Types of Evidence Quiz

Which type of evidence is a confession?

• circumstantial

• direct

• physical

• all of these

What type of evidence is DNA?

• direct

• circumstantial

• class

• all of these

what type of evidence is biological?

• DNA

• fingerprints

• both

• none of these

Which type of evidence is physical?

• blood

• mucus

• fingerprints

• none of these

Which type is class evidence?

• hair with the follicle

• fingerprints

• pollen

• none of these

What is an example of trace evidence?

• hair on a shirt

• knife left at the scene

• victims clothing

• all of these

Which statement is true?

• circumstantial evidence can only imply a fact, not directly prove it

• circumstantial evidence narrows an identity to one person

• direct evidence includes DNA and fingerprints

• individual evidence narrows an identity to a group of people

Clothes fiber, bullet, and glove are all what type of evidence?

• direct and physical

• circumstantial and direct

• trace and direct

• physical and circumstantial

What type of evidence are blood, DNA, and mucus

• circumstantial and class

• individual and direct

• trace and class

• individual and biological

What type of evidence includes first hand observations?

• circumstantial

• direct

• physical

• all of these