Chapter 5
CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE
True or False?
1) Like a crime, a tort is considered to be a
public wrong.
False
True or False?
2) One act by a defendant cannot be both a
crime and a tort.
False
True or False?
3) Even children and insane persons may be held
liable for their tortious conduct.
True
True or False?
4) Public figures, such as politicians or movie
stars, give up much of their right to privacy
when they enter the public domain.
True
True or False?
5) A second grade teacher who makes one of his
students sit at his desk during recess has
committed the tort of false imprisonment.
False
Multiple choice
6) Which of the following
compels a witness to appear in
court and testify?
a) A complaint
b) A subpoena
c) A service
d) An indictment
b) A subpoena
7) A harmful or offensive
touching is called a(n)
a) assault
b) Battery
c) Defamation
d) An invasion of privacy
b) Battery
8) In a jury trial, who decides
issues of fact?
a) The defendant
b) The judges of the appellate court
c) The jury
d) The trial judge
C) The jury
9) The most common tort is
a) Assault
b) Battery
c) Invasion of privacy
d) Negligence
d) Negligence
10) The party complained
against in a civil case is
known
as
the
a) Plaintiff
b) Dependent
c) Respondent
d) None of the above
D) None of the above
Competition
11) Duty requires that we act with the care,
prudence, and good judgment of a reasonable
person so as not to cause ________ to others.
injury
12) A threat of an unwanted sexual touching would
be classified as the tort of __________.
Assault
13) After Nancy and Sue vandalize a neighborhood
grocery store, the grocery store owner files against
the girl’s parents claiming that the girls’ parents are
liable for their children committed. The type of
liability that the girls’ parents are said to have is
known as ______ liability.
Vicarious
14) Ana is an up and coming actress who just
signed a contract to perform for a major network’s
popular soap opera. Now that Ana has stepped into
the public domain, she has greatly reduced the
scope of her right of
___________.
Privacy
15) Brighton Snubbery caught his next door
neighbor on videotape dumping her garbage over
the fence onto his property. Brighton may sue the
neighbor for ________ to his land.
Trespass