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PA165 Introduction to Torts

Unit 2 Quiz

Question 1 All of the following are intentional torts except

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All of the above are intentional torts.

Defamation.

Fraud.

Negligence.

Battery.

Question 2

Which of the following is not an example of confinement, an element of false imprisonment?

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Placing the victim in the back seat of an automobile, with all doors unlocked, driving at 75 m.p.h. on the interstate.

Posting a sign outside a store's shoplifter detention area reading, "WARNING! ATTACK DOGS AWAIT OUTSIDE THIS ROOM!"

Telling the victim that if he or she leaves the premises, the victim will be beaten up.

Placing armed guards outside the victim's apartment while the victim is asleep.

Locking the victim in a room with one door and no windows.

Question 3 In both intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, the victim must suffer severe mental anguish.

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                True

                False

Question 4 Intentional torts may be best defined as

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None of the above.

Behavior that is also criminal.

Conduct for which the defendant is liable regardless of fault or intent.

Conduct that is fashioned to harm another person or his or her property.

The failure to exercise reasonable care.

Question 5 Transferred intent is a principle associated with which intentional tort?

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Assault.

False imprisonment.

Intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Battery.

None of the above.

Question 6 False imprisonment occurs even if the tortfeasor did not intend to confine the victim.

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                True

                False

Question 7 Assault is best defined as

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None of the above.

All of the above.

A breach of the king's peace.

Unconsented physical contact.

Battery.

Question 8 What best distinguishes assault from battery in tort law?

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None of the above.

Battery requires physical contact, and assault does not.

Assault requires physical contact, and battery does not.

The courts interpret the common law.

The legislature passes a statute.

Question 9 Which of the following is the best example of intentional infliction of emotional distress?

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None of the above.

Spitting on a crowded sidewalk.

Calling a friend during an important business meeting to inform him or her of a nonexistent "family emergency."

Shouting obscenities at a basketball official in an arena seating 10,000 fans.

Setting fire to a wastebasket in an empty classroom.

Question 10 In infliction of emotional distress cases, ordinary sensibilities is best defined as

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None of the above.

A tortfeasor's state of mind in causing emotional distress.

When a reasonable person suffers physical symptoms from mental anguish.

A reasonable person's fear of an imminent battery.

Whether or not a reasonable person would suffer emotional distress as a result of the tortfeasor's actions.