ALLIED BUS230 MODULE 2 check your understanding

Question Points
1. Impaneling
a jury means:
a. dismissing a jury
at the conclusion of the trial.
b. exempting jurors
from jury duty.
c. selecting people
to serve as jurors for a case set for trial.
d. notifying jurors
at their homes that they have been called to serve as jurors.
LO2F:Explain the structure of the criminal justice system.
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2. Damages
resulting from cyber torts are primarily reputational or economic.
a. True
b. False
LO3B:Discuss types of computer crime and summarize the
purpose of RICO.
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3. A grand
jury determines the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
a. True
b. False
LO3F:Identify procedural similarities and differences
between civil action and criminal action.
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4. Under the
law, torts are classified as:
a. nntentional,
negligent, and criminal.
b. criminal,
intentional, and strict liability.
c. intentional,
negligent, and strict liability.
d. criminal,
negligent, and strict liability.
LO3A:Identify the legal terminology for a variety of public
wrongs.
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5. Of the
following, the one that is not a defense to a criminal action is:
a. involuntary
intoxication.
b. duress.
c. consent.
d. justification.
LO3C:Recall the various legal defenses to crimes.
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6. The
questioning of a witness for the plaintiff by the attorney for the defendant is
called:
a. direct
examination.
b.
cross-examination.
c. indirect
examination.
d. redirect
examination.
LO3F:Identify procedural similarities and differences
between civil action and criminal action.
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7. In which
of the following situations does a battery occur?
a. Johnson is
tackled during a college football game he is playing in and suffers an injury
to his back.
b. O’Grady is
injured by a punch in the nose received by a boxing opponent during a boxing
match.
c. Biggs is hit in
the head by a wild pitch and seriously injured while batting in a hardball
game.
d. Williams is
deliberately tripped and seriously injured by an unfriendly movie patron trying
to get ahead of Williams in the ticket line.
LO3A:Identify the legal terminology for a variety of public
wrongs.
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8. Certain
acts have been declared crimes by:
a. a jury.
b. a judge.
c. the district
attorney.
d. the U.S. Congress
and state legislatures.
LO3F:Identify procedural similarities and differences
between civil action and criminal action.
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9. Of the
following, the crime that would probably be considered a misdemeanor is:
a. setting fire to a
neighbor’s house.
b. stealing a pack
of diet soda.
c. robbing a store
at gunpoint.
d. robbing a store
at gunpoint.
LO3D:Describe the principle differences between a private
wrong (tort) and a public wrong (crime).
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10. An example
of a tort that is not intentional is:
a. fraud.
b. wrongful death.
c. negligence.
d. infliction of
mental distress.
LO3D:Describe the principle differences between a private
wrong (tort) and a public wrong (crime).
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11. The first
papers served in a civil action are:
a. the complaint and
summons.
b. a summons and
answer.
c. a complaint and
answer.
d. a deposition and
subpoena.
LO3F:Identify procedural similarities and differences
between civil action and criminal action.
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12. In most
states the doctrine of comparative negligence has been replaced by the doctrine
of contributory negligence.
a. True
b. False
LO3D:Describe the principle differences between a private
wrong (tort) and a public wrong (crime).
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13. Which of
the following acts is not a crime?
a. Slander.
b. Arson.
c. Embezzlement.
d. Shoplifting.
LO3A:Identify the legal terminology for a variety of public
wrongs.
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14. Battery is
any act that puts a person in fear of being physically harmed by another.
a. True
b. False
LO3A:Identify the legal terminology for a variety of public
wrongs.
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15. Damages
awarded as punishment for an intentional tort are called:
a. punitive damages.
b. Compensatory
damages.
c. Comparative
damages.
d. None of the
choices apply.
LO3E:Distinguish among intentional torts, torts resulting
from negligence, and torts based on strict liability.
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16. Johnson
leaves her garbage in open containers, causing obnoxious odors in her
neighborhood. This is an example of:
a. nuisance.
b. fraud.
c. trespass.
d. invasion of
privacy.
LO3D:Describe the principle differences between a private
wrong (tort) and a public wrong (crime).
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17. The terms
“foreseeability” and “proximate cause” are associated with
the tort of:
a. conversion.
b. trespass.
c. slander.
d. negligence.
LO3E:Distinguish among intentional torts, torts resulting
from negligence, and torts based on strict liability.
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18. If a
person feels that he or she has been injured by the actions of someone else, he
or she may start a court action against that person to obtain relief by filing
a:
a. complaint.
b. judgment.
c. subpoena.
d. summons.
LO2F:Explain the structure of the criminal justice system.
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19. A petty
offense is:
a. punishable by a
year in jail.
b. one that results
in a permanent criminal record.
c. not considered a
criminal act.
d. none of the
choices apply.
LO3A:Identify the legal terminology for a variety of public
wrongs.
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20. A felony
is:
a. less serious than
a misdemeanor.
b. more serious than
a violation, infraction, or petty offense.
c. by law not a true
crime.
d. punishable by
imprisonment in a local institution such as county jail for more than one year.