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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.
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
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
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
Question 15
15.
Fingerprints can be taken from _____________ by chemically treating the fingertips to help them puff out.
In 1823, Jan Evangelist Purkyn described nine distinct fingerprint patterns, including:
loops
spirals
triangles
squares
double whorls
double loops
circles
Ivan Vucetich
Sir Francis Galton
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Dr. Nehemiah Grew
Sir Francis Galton
Ivan Vucetich