CLJ 4 – Criminal Law Book 2
  • 1. What is the title of Book Two of the Revised Penal Code?
A) General Provisions
B) Crimes and Penalties
C) Crimes and Penalties
D) Criminal Procedures
  • 2. Which of the following is a crime against persons?
A) Malversation
B) Homicide
C) Theft
D) Robbery
  • 3. Homicide is generally committed when a person:
A) Receives stolen property
B) Kills another person without qualifying circumstances of murder
C) Falsifies a document
D) Takes property without consent
  • 4. Murder differs from homicide because murder:
A) Is a property crime
B) Is always committed by several persons
C) Has qualifying circumstances
D) Involves no death
  • 5. Parricide is the killing of:
A) A person during robbery
B) Certain close relatives specified by law
C) A public officer
D) A stranger
  • 6. Which crime involves intentionally killing a child less than three days old?
A) Infanticide
B) Abortion
C) Homicide
D) Parricide
  • 7. What crime is committed when a person kills another through negligence or imprudence?
A) Parricide
B) Treason
C) Murder
D) Homicide through reckless imprudence
  • 8. Which is an element of homicide?
A) Taking property
B) Falsifying a document
C) Entering a dwelling
D) Killing another person
  • 9. Physical injuries may be classified as:
A) Simple, complex, or compound only
B) Public, private, or personal
C) Serious, less serious, or slight
D) Civil, criminal, or administrative
  • 10. What crime involves deliberately causing an injury to another person?
A) Estafa
B) Perjury
C) Theft
D) Physical injuries
  • 11. Which crime involves intentionally causing a miscarriage?
A) Abortion
B) Homicide
C) Infanticide
D) Libel
  • 12. Rape is classified under crimes against:
A) Public order
B) Property
C) Persons
D) Public interest
  • 13. Which of the following may constitute rape under Philippine law?
A) Public disturbance
B) Taking property
C) Simple disagreement
D) Sexual assault under circumstances defined by law
  • 14. Crimes against chastity traditionally include:
A) Malversation
B) Acts involving sexual or moral violations defined by law
C) Arson only
D) Theft
  • 15. Which crime involves taking another person's property with violence or intimidation?
A) Theft
B) Robbery
C) Estafa
D) Malversation
  • 16. What distinguishes robbery from theft?
A) Theft is committed only by public officers
B) Robbery involves violence, intimidation, or force upon things as defined by law
C) Robbery involves no taking
D) Theft always involves violence
  • 17. Theft is committed when a person:
A) Falsifies a document
B) Takes personal property of another without violence or intimidation and without consent, with intent to gain
C) Threatens a public officer
D) Kills another person
  • 18. What is the element of intent to gain commonly called?
A) Animus furandi
B) Dolus directus
C) Mens rea only
D) Res judicata
  • 19. Estafa is commonly associated with:
A) Physical injury
B) Rebellion
C) Deceit or abuse of confidence
D) Killing
  • 20. Which is a crime against property?
A) Rape
B) Theft
C) Direct assault
D) Murder
  • 21. Robbery with violence or intimidation involves:
A) Finding abandoned property
B) Taking property accidentally
C) Borrowing property with permission
D) Taking property through violence or intimidation
  • 22. What crime involves intentionally burning property or structures under circumstances punished by law?
A) Theft
B) Estafa
C) Arson
D) Malversation
  • 23. Which crime involves unlawful destruction of property by fire?
A) Perjury
B) Homicide
C) Libel
D) Arson
  • 24. Malversation is generally committed by:
A) Any private individual only
B) A child
C) A witness
D) A public officer accountable for public funds or property
  • 25. What is the subject of malversation?
A) Public funds or property
B) Family relationships
C) Private letters only
D) Personal opinions
  • 26. Which crime involves a public officer appropriating public funds?
A) Theft
B) Malversation
C) Estafa only
D) Robbery
  • 27. Illegal use of public funds for a purpose other than that authorized by law may constitute:
A) Libel
B) Homicide
C) Technical malversation
D) Alarm and scandal
  • 28. What crime involves a public officer agreeing to receive a gift in consideration of an act related to official duties?
A) Theft
B) Perjury
C) Robbery
D) Direct bribery
  • 29. Indirect bribery generally involves:
A) A public officer accepting gifts because of the office
B) A person falsifying a document
C) A person stealing property
D) A person killing another
  • 30. Who may be liable for direct bribery?
A) Only a private citizen
B) A public officer
C) Only a witness
D) Only a minor
  • 31. What crime involves attacking or using force against a person in authority or their agent while performing official duties?
A) Arson
B) Direct assault
C) Estafa
D) Theft
  • 32. A person in authority is one who is:
A) Any private citizen
B) Legally vested with authority or jurisdiction
C) A business owner
D) A relative of the accused
  • 33. Which is a crime against public order?
A) Estafa
B) Theft
C) Rebellion
D) Homicide
  • 34. Rebellion generally involves:
A) Public and tumultuous uprising to attain certain objectives against the government, as defined by law
B) Causing slight physical injuries
C) Taking private property
D) Falsifying a document
  • 35. Sedition involves:
A) Public and tumultuous uprising for certain unlawful purposes defined by law
B) Killing a relative
C) Taking property without consent
D) Sexual assault
  • 36. Treason is committed by:
A) A Filipino citizen or certain persons under the circumstances specified by law, against the Philippines by levying war or adhering to enemies
B) Any person who steals
C) Any person who commits libel
D) Any person who commits a traffic violation
  • 37. Which crime involves betrayal of allegiance to the Philippines during wartime?
A) Theft
B) Treason
C) Estafa
D) Arson
  • 38. How many witnesses are generally required to prove an overt act of treason?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) One
  • 39. What crime involves making false statements under oath concerning a material matter?
A) Perjury
B) Robbery
C) Theft
D) Libel
  • 40. Perjury requires that the false statement be:
A) Made without knowledge
B) Made under oath and material to the issue
C) Made only in private
D) Made casually
  • 41. Which crime involves publicly and maliciously imputing a crime, vice, or defect to another?
A) Homicide
B) Libel
C) Theft
D) Malversation
  • 42. Libel is generally committed through:
A) Writing or similar means of publication
B) Fire
C) Theft
D) Physical assault only
  • 43. Oral defamation is also known as:
A) Forgery
B) Slander
C) Libel
D) Perjury
  • 44. Which crime involves publishing defamatory statements through writing?
A) Theft
B) Robbery
C) Libel
D) Slander
  • 45. What is grave coercion?
A) Taking property
B) Killing another
C) Preventing another person by violence, threats, or intimidation from doing something not prohibited by law, or compelling them to do something against their will
D) Falsifying a document
  • 46. Unjust vexation involves:
A) Burning property
B) Annoying or irritating another person without lawful justification, when the act is covered by the law
C) Killing another
D) Stealing property
  • 47. Alarms and scandals are classified under:
A) Crimes against persons
B) Crimes against chastity
C) Crimes against public order
D) Crimes against property
  • 48. Which crime involves disturbing public peace through prohibited acts?
A) Theft
B) . Estafa
C) Parricide
D) Alarms and scandals
  • 49. What crime is committed when a person enters a dwelling against the will of the occupant?
A) Estafa
B) Trespass to dwelling
C) Malversation
D) Theft
  • 50. Trespass to dwelling protects:
A) The privacy and security of a person's dwelling
B) Public funds
C) Public roads
D) Government documents
  • 51. Which crime involves entering a dwelling without the owner's consent?
A) Direct bribery
B) Perjury
C) Libel
D) Qualified trespass to dwelling
  • 52. Forgery generally involves:
A) Public disturbance
B) Killing a person
C) Stealing food
D) Making a false document or altering one with intent to deceive
  • 53. Falsification of public documents may be committed by:
A) Only police officers
B) Only lawyers
C) Only judges
D) A public officer or other persons under circumstances provided by law
  • 54. Which crime involves making false entries in an official document?
A) Falsification
B) Robbery
C) Homicide
D) Arson
  • 55. What is the purpose of many falsification offenses?
A) To punish theft only
B) To protect public order
C) To deceive or cause damage through falsehood in a document
D) To regulate traffic
  • 56. Counterfeiting money involves:
A) Stealing personal property
B) Causing physical injury
C) Defaming another person
D) Making false currency resembling genuine currency
  • 57. Which crime involves possession or use of counterfeit currency under circumstances punished by law?
A) Direct assault
B) Parricide
C) Counterfeiting-related offense
D) Trespass
  • 58. Which is considered a crime against public interest?
A) Homicide
B) Robbery
C) Rape
D) Falsification
  • 59. Which crime involves forging a signature?
A) Falsification or forgery, depending on the document and circumstances
B) Arson
C) Robbery
D) Homicide
  • 60. What is a public document?
A) A personal text message
B) A private diary only
C) Any handwritten note
D) A document created or executed by a public officer in accordance with official duties, or otherwise recognized by law
  • 61. Which crime involves unlawful possession of firearms under applicable law?
A) Illegal possession of firearms
B) Perjury
C) Estafa
D) Libel
  • 62. Which offense may be committed when a person disobeys a lawful order of a person in authority?
A) Murder
B) Arson
C) Resistance or disobedience
D) Theft
  • 63. Resistance and disobedience are generally classified under:
A) Crimes against persons
B) Crimes against property
C) Crimes against public order
D) Crimes against chastity
  • 64. What is direct assault?
A) Making a false document
B) Burning property
C) Attacking or employing force against a person in authority or their agent under circumstances specified by law
D) Taking property
  • 65. Which crime involves refusing to obey a lawful order of a person in authority?
A) Theft
B) Disobedience
C) Arson
D) Libel
  • 66. What is the primary object of crimes against public order?
A) Robbery
B) To protect peace and order and the authority of the government
C) Theft
D) Murder
  • 67. What is abandonment of office?
A) Defaming a person
B) Stealing a vehicle
C) Taking public funds
D) Leaving or abandoning public office under circumstances punished by law
  • 68. Which crime involves disclosure of secrets by a public officer?
A) Homicide
B) Theft
C) Robbery
D) Revelation of secrets by an officer
  • 69. A public officer who reveals a secret known because of official duties may be liable when:
A) The information is always public
B) No law applies
C) The officer is off duty
D) The elements of the applicable offense are present
  • 70. Which crime involves a public officer who knowingly tolerates the commission of a crime in certain circumstances?
A) Offense involving dereliction or tolerance, as provided by law
B) Arson
C) Theft
D) Rape
  • 71. Which is a crime against public interest?
A) Robbery
B) Physical injuries
C) Illegal use of fictitious name and concealment of true name
D) Homicide
  • 72. What does usurpation of authority generally involve?
A) Killing someone
B) Stealing money
C) Damaging property
D) Pretending to possess authority or powers that one does not legally have
  • 73. What does usurpation of official functions involve?
A) Making defamatory statements
B) Performing an act belonging to a public officer without legal authority
C) Committing theft
D) Committing physical injuries
  • 74. Which crime involves falsely representing oneself as a public officer?
A) Estafa
B) Usurpation of authority or official functions
C) Homicide
D) Theft
  • 75. What is illegal marriage under the Revised Penal Code generally concerned with?
A) Physical injuries
B) Arson
C) Certain unlawful marriages or contracting a second/subsequent marriage while a prior valid marriage exists, subject to legal requirements
D) Theft
  • 76. Bigamy involves:
A) Killing another
B) Contracting a second or subsequent marriage before the first marriage has been legally dissolved or the spouse declared presumptively dead, subject to law
C) Falsifying money
D) Stealing property
  • 77. Which crime is committed by marrying another person while a valid previous marriage exists?
A) Robbery
B) Bigamy
C) Libel
D) Perjury
  • 78. Which crime involves simulation of births?
A) Direct assault
B) Homicide
C) Theft
D) Simulation of births
  • 79. Which crime involves concealing or abandoning a legitimate child under circumstances punished by law?
A) Arson
B) Malversation
C) Robbery
D) Offenses involving civil status or family relations
  • 80. What is an offense against public morals?
A) Theft
B) Malversation
C) Homicide
D) Certain acts considered immoral and specifically punished by law
  • 81. Which crime involves concealing or abandoning a legitimate child under circumstances punished by law?
A) Malversation
B) Offenses involving civil status or family relations
C) Arson
D) Robbery
  • 82. Which crime involves gambling in violation of applicable laws?
A) Illegal gambling
B) Libel
C) Homicide
D) Treason
  • 83. Which is an example of a crime against public morals?
A) Homicide
B) Theft
C) Vagrancy-related or prostitution-related offenses where applicable under current law
D) Malversation
  • 84. Which is an example of a crime against public morals?
A) Murder
B) Vagrancy-related or prostitution-related offenses where applicable under current law
C) Homicide
D) Theft
  • 85. What is grave scandal?
A) Falsification
B) Acts that offend decency or good customs under circumstances punished by law
C) Murder
D) Theft
  • 86. Which crime involves possession of prohibited publications or materials under circumstances punished by law?
A) Crimes against property
B) Crimes against national security
C) Crimes against persons
D) Offenses against public morals
  • 87. Which crime is committed when a person fails to render assistance to someone in danger under circumstances required by law?
A) Abandonment or failure to render assistance, where applicable
B) Robbery
C) Libel
D) Theft
  • 88. What is abandonment of persons in danger and abandonment of one's own victim?
A) An offense involving failure to provide required assistance under circumstances specified by law
B) A crime against national security
C) A property crime
D) A crime of falsification
  • 89. Which crime involves exposing or abandoning a child below a certain age under circumstances punished by law?
A) Estafa
B) Direct assault
C) Theft
D) Abandoning a minor
  • 90. Crimes against national security include:
A) Treason and espionage
B) Estafa and malversation
C) Theft and robbery
D) Libel and slander
  • 91. Espionage generally involves:
A) Stealing personal property
B) Defaming another person
C) Causing physical injury
D) Obtaining or transmitting information relating to national defense under circumstances punished by law
  • 92. Which crime involves entering a prohibited military area to obtain information?
A) Libel
B) Homicide
C) Espionage, when the statutory elements are present
D) Theft
  • 93. Piracy is generally committed by:
A) Defaming someone
B) Stealing from a store
C) Falsifying documents
D) Attacking or seizing a vessel or committing specified acts on the high seas or Philippine waters under the law
  • 94. Which is a crime against national security?
A) Estafa
B) Theft
C) Physical injuries
D) Piracy
  • 95. In criminal law, conspiracy generally requires:
A) Agreement and decision to commit the offense
B) Mere knowledge of a crime
C) Mere presence at the scene
D) Friendship only
  • 96. What is conspiracy?
A) A civil contract
B) An agreement between two or more persons to commit a felony, together with the required intent under law
C) A disagreement between people
D) A court decision
  • 97. Which is NOT automatically sufficient to prove conspiracy?
A) Coordinated acts showing a common purpose
B) Express agreement
C) Mere presence at the crime scene
D) Circumstances showing concerted action
  • 98. Which crime involves taking property through violence or intimidation?
A) Libel
B) Perjury
C) Theft
D) Robbery
  • 99. Which crime involves taking personal property of another with intent to gain and without violence or intimidation?
A) Robbery
B) Homicide
C) Theft
D) Estafa
  • 100. The Revised Penal Code is primarily divided into:
A) Four books
B) Book One and Book Two
C) Three books
D) Five books
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