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Chapter 6 Section 1 Worksheet
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Question 1
1.
Pudd'nhead Wilson is a lawyer created by ________________ in the novel of the same name, published in November 1894.
Question 2
2.
The author from above published under a penn name, what was his real name?
Question 3
3.
In the his book fingerprints were used to dramatically solve a case in which ________________ were falsely accused of murder.
Question 4
4.
Archaeologists discovered fingerprints pressed into clay tablet contracts dating back to 1792-1750 B.C. in ____________________.
Question 5
5.
Oldest known documents showing fingerprints dates from the ______________.
Question 6
6.
In 1823, Jan Evangelist Purkyn described nine distinct fingerprint patterns, including:
loops
spirals
triangles
squares
double whorls
double loops
circles
Question 7
7.
The picture above is an image of _______________________________.
Question 8
8.
_______________________ was the first person to document incoming prisoners with a photograph, the forerunner of the modern mug shot.
Question 9
9.
The picture above is an example of a _______________.
Question 10
10.
In 1879, Alphonse Bertillon, an assistant clerk in the records office at
the Police Station in Paris, created a way to identify criminals. The system,
sometimes called ________________, was first used in 1883 to identify a repeating
offender.
Question 11
11.
He was the first person to document incoming prisoners with a photograph, the forerunner of the modern mug shot.
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Sir E. R. Henry
Alphonse Bertillon
Ivan Vucetich
Sir Francis Galton
Question 12
12.
This book was the first one which used fingerprints as a major breakthrough to dramatically solve a case.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Study in Scarlet
Murder on the Orient Express
Question 13
13.
He (and colleagues) created a system that divided fingerprint records into groups.
Sir Edmund Richard Henry
Sir Francis Galton
Jan Evangelist Purkyn
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Dr. Nehemiah Grew
Question 14
14.
He devised his own fingerprint classification system and invented a better way of collecting the impressions.
Sir E. R. Henry
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Mark Twain
Sir Francis Galton
Ivan Vucetich
Question 15
15.
Fingerprints can be taken from _____________ by chemically treating the fingertips to help them puff out.