(TEAM1)-MCQ-(AREA1) CRIMLAW2 CM4K TAGONGAN - Quiz
  • 1. 1. What is the main subject of Book Two of the Revised Penal Code?
A) Crimes and their corresponding penalties.
B) General principles of criminal liability
C) Civil obligations
D) Rules of court
E) Crimes and their corresponding penalties
  • 2. 2. Which of the following is a crime against national security?
A) Malversation
B) Estafa
C) Treason
D) Treason
E) Theft
  • 3. 3. Treason is committed by a Filipino who:
A) Levies war against the Philippines or adheres to its enemies
B) Fails to pay a debt
C) Commits any crime against property
D) Disobeys a police officer
E) Levies war against the Philippines or adheres to its enemies.
  • 4. 4. Which crime involves an attempt to overthrow or weaken the government by force?
A) Rebellion
B) Rebellion
C) Theft
D) Libel
E) Malversation
  • 5. 5. What crime is committed by a public officer who refuses to surrender a prisoner to the proper judicial authority?
A) Resistance
B) Infidelity in the custody of prisoners.
C) Direct assault
D) Infidelity in the custody of prisoners
E) Bribery
  • 6. 6. Which crime is committed by a person who attacks or employs force against a person in authority or an agent of a person in authority?
A) Direct assault
B) Direct assault.
C) Threat
D) Grave coercion
E) Unjust vexation
  • 7. 7. What is indirect assault?
A) Attacking a private individual
B) Refusing to answer questions
C) Threatening a police officer online
D) Performing acts of violence against a person coming to the aid of authorities during a direct assault.
E) Performing acts of violence against a person coming to the aid of authorities during a direct assault
  • 8. 8. Which crime involves resisting or seriously disobeying a person in authority or an agent while performing official duties?
A) Theft
B) Resistance or disobedience
C) Resistance or disobedience.
D) Falsification
E) Robbery
  • 9. . What is rebellion primarily directed against?
A) The government or lawful authority
B) A private corporation
C) family member
D) The government or lawful authority.
E) Private property
  • 10. 10. Which crime involves a public officer who receives an offer or promise in exchange for performing an act connected with official duties?
A) Robbery
B) Theft
C) Trespass
D) Bribery.
E) Bribery
  • 11. 11. What is direct bribery?
A) A person threatens another
B) A private person steals property
C) A public officer agrees to perform or refrain from an act in consideration of a gift or promise.
D) A person destroys public property
E) A public officer agrees to perform or refrain from an act in consideration of a gift or promise
  • 12. 12. What is indirect bribery generally concerned with?
A) Forging documents
B) A public officer accepting gifts offered by reason of the office.
C) Attacking an officer
D) Stealing government property
E) A public officer accepting gifts offered by reason of the office
  • 13. 13. Which crime involves a public officer taking advantage of official position to acquire a benefit for himself or another?
A) Theft
B) Certain acts of public officers involving prohibited interests
C) Grave coercion
D) Robbery
E) Certain acts of public officers involving prohibited interests.
  • 14. 14. What crime is committed when a public officer appropriates public funds or property entrusted to their custody?
A) Malversation
B) Robbery
C) Malversation
D) Theft
E) Estafa
  • 15. 15. Who may generally commit malversation?
A) Only a minor
B) A public officer accountable for public funds or property
C) Only a judge
D) Only a private citizen
E) A public officer accountable for public funds or property.
  • 16. 16. What is technical malversation?
A) Stealing private property
B) Using public funds or property for a public purpose different from that legally designated
C) Destroying evidence
D) Forging a government document
E) Using public funds or property for a public purpose different from that legally designated
  • 17. 17. Which crime involves a public officer who agrees to perform an act constituting a crime in exchange for a gift or promise?
A) Direct bribery.
B) Indirect bribery
C) Direct bribery
D) Theft
E) Estafa
  • 18. 18. Which crime is committed when a person offers a gift or promise to a public officer in consideration of an act connected with official duties?
A) Falsification
B) Corruption of public officials.
C) Malversation
D) Perjury
E) Corruption of public officials.
  • 19. 19. Which crime involves making a false statement under oath concerning a material matter?
A) Slander
B) Theft
C) Libel
D) Perjury
E) Perjury
  • 20. 20. What is falsification?
A) Entering a house unlawfully
B) Threatening another person
C) Making an untruthful alteration or representation in a document under circumstances punished by law
D) Making an untruthful alteration or representation in a document under circumstances punished by law
E) Taking property by force
  • 21. 21. Which crime is committed when a person takes personal property belonging to another without violence, intimidation, or force upon things and with intent to gain?
A) Estafa
B) Malversation
C) Robbery
D) Theft
E) Theft
  • 22. 22. What distinguishes robbery from theft?
A) Robbery involves violence, intimidation, or force upon things as provided by law
B) Theft always involves violence
C) Robbery involves violence, intimidation, or force upon things as provided by law
D) Theft is committed only against government property
E) Robbery involves no intent to gain
  • 23. 23. What is the basic intent required in theft?
A) Intent to arrest
B) Intent to gain
C) Intent to marry
D) Intent to testify
E) Intent to gain
  • 24. 24. What is estafa generally characterized by?
A) Destroying government records
B) Attacking a police officer
C) Taking property through physical force only
D) Defrauding another through deceit or abuse of confidence under circumstances defined by law
E) Defrauding another through deceit or abuse of confidence under circumstances defined by law
  • 25. 25. Which crime involves taking personal property with violence or intimidation of persons?
A) Theft
B) Estafa
C) Robbery with violence or intimidation
D) Robbery with violence or intimidation
E) Malversation
  • 26. 26. Which crime involves intentionally killing another person without circumstances that qualify it as murder or parricide?
A) Theft
B) Physical injuries
C) Robbery
D) Homicide
E) Homicide
  • 27. 27. What is murder distinguished by?
A) The fact that no person died
B) The presence of qualifying circumstances specified by law
C) The existence of property damage only
D) The absence of intent to kill
E) The presence of qualifying circumstances specified by law
  • 28. 28. What crime is committed when a person kills another person who is a spouse, parent, child, or other relative specified by law?
A) Parricide
B) Murder
C) Parricide
D) Homicide
E) Reckless imprudence
  • 29. 29. Which crime involves killing a newborn child by its mother under circumstances specified by law?
A) Homicide
B) Infanticide
C) Infanticide
D) Parricide
E) Abortion
  • 30. 30. What is frustrated homicide?
A) The offender merely plans a killing
B) The offender performs all acts of execution that would produce homicide, but the victim survives due to causes independent of the offender's will
C) The offender abandons the plan before beginning execution
D) The offender performs all acts of execution that would produce homicide, but the victim survives due to causes independent of the offender's will
E) No injury occurs
  • 31. 31. What is physical injury?
A) Damage to property only
B) A written threat
C) A verbal disagreement
D) Bodily harm inflicted upon another person
E) Bodily harm inflicted upon another person
  • 32. 32. Which crime involves intentionally causing physical injuries to another person?
A) Estafa
B) Falsification
C) Physical injuries
D) Physical injuries
E) Theft
  • 33. 33. What is serious physical injury?
A) Verbal insult
B) Injury falling within the serious categories specified by law
C) Property damage
D) Any minor scratch
E) Injury falling within the serious categories specified by law
  • 34. 34. What crime involves causing injury through reckless imprudence?
A) Libel
B) Direct assault
C) Robbery
D) Reckless imprudence resulting in physical injuries
E) Reckless imprudence resulting in physical injuries
  • 35. 35. Which offense involves intentionally inflicting physical pain or humiliation on another person under circumstances covered by law?
A) Other light or less serious physical injuries, depending on circumstances
B) Theft
C) Other light or less serious physical injuries, depending on circumstances
D) Treason
E) Malversation
  • 36. 36. What is abortion in criminal law generally concerned with?
A) Theft of property
B) The unlawful destruction of the fetus under circumstances punished by law
C) The unlawful destruction of the fetus under circumstances punished by law
D) Forgery
E) Illegal detention
  • 37. 37. Which crime involves intentionally causing the death of a fetus under circumstances defined by law?
A) Intentional abortion
B) Theft
C) Homicide
D) Intentional abortion
E) Perjury
  • 38. 38. What is rape primarily classified as under the Revised Penal Code?
A) A crime against property
B) A crime against persons
C) A crime against persons
D) A crime against public order
E) A crime against public interest
  • 39. 39. Which law expanded and amended Philippine laws concerning rape and sexual assault?
A) Republic Act No. 9165
B) Republic Act No. 6975
C) Republic Act No. 8353
D) Republic Act No. 9344
E) Republic Act No. 8353
  • 40. 40.What is the general meaning of grave coercion?
A) Making a false document
B) Preventing another by violence, threats, or intimidation from doing something not prohibited by law, or compelling another to do something against their will
C) Receiving public funds
D) Preventing another by violence, threats, or intimidation from doing something not prohibited by law, or compelling another to do something against their will
E) Taking property without consent
  • 41. 41.What is unjust vexation?
A) Any human conduct that unjustly annoys or irritates another when not covered by another specific offense
B) Killing another person
C) Forging a document
D) Any human conduct that unjustly annoys or irritates another when not covered by another specific offense
E) Taking property by force
  • 42. 42. What is illegal detention?
A) Taking property without consent
B) Making a false statement
C) Unlawfully depriving another person of liberty
D) Refusing to pay a debt
E) Unlawfully depriving another person of liberty
  • 43. 43. Which crime is committed by a private person who unlawfully kidnaps or detains another?
A) Illegal detention
B) Illegal detention
C) Perjury
D) Malversation
E) Theft
  • 44. 44. What is kidnapping?
A) Refusing to testify
B) Unlawfully taking or carrying away or detaining a person under circumstances punished by law
C) Taking property without consent
D) Destroying a document
E) Unlawfully taking or carrying away or detaining a person under circumstances punished by law
  • 45. 45. Which crime involves threatening another person with harm to person, honor, or property?
A) Robbery
B) Malversation
C) Grave threats
D) Grave threats
E) Theft
  • 46. 46. What is light threat?
A) A physical injury
B) A form of bribery
C) A property crime
D) A threat falling within the circumstances specifically defined by law as a lighter offense
E) A threat falling within the circumstances specifically defined by law as a lighter offense
  • 47. 47. What is oral defamation commonly called?
A) Falsification
B) Libel
C) Slander
D) Perjury
E) Slander
  • 48. 48. What is libel?
A) A physical attack
B) A public and malicious imputation of a crime, vice, defect, or circumstance tending to cause dishonor, discredit, or contempt under circumstances defined by law
C) A public and malicious imputation of a crime, vice, defect, or circumstance tending to cause dishonor, discredit, or contempt under circumstances defined by law
D) A property offense
E) An unlawful arrest
  • 49. 49. What is the usual distinction between libel and slander?
A) Libel is generally written or similarly fixed, while slander is oral
B) Libel is generally written or similarly fixed, while slander is oral
C) Both are always physical offenses
D) Slander applies only to public officers
E) Libel is always physical, while slander is written
  • 50. 50. Which crime involves entering the dwelling of another against the latter's will?
A) Theft
B) Robbery
C) Estafa
D) Violation of domicile
E) Violation of domicile
  • 51. 51. Which crime is committed by a public officer who enters a dwelling against the will of the owner without legal justification?
A) Malversation
B) Estafa
C) Violation of domicile by a public officer
D) Violation of domicile by a public officer
E) Theft
  • 52. 52. What is trespass to dwelling?
A) Entering the dwelling of another against the latter's will under circumstances punished by law
B) Entering the dwelling of another against the latter's will under circumstances punished by law
C) Taking public funds
D) Threatening a government official
E) Forging documents
  • 53. 53. Which crime involves taking property from another by means of violence, intimidation, or force upon things?
A) Malversation
B) Theft
C) Robbery
D) Robbery
E) Estafa
  • 54. 54. Which crime involves taking property without violence, intimidation, or force upon things?
A) Grave coercion
B) Theft
C) Robbery
D) Theft
E) Direct assault
  • 55. 55. What is carnapping?
A) Taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent or by means of violence or intimidation, as defined by law
B) Taking a bicycle only
C) Taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent or by means of violence or intimidation, as defined by law
D) Borrowing a vehicle with permission
E) Selling a legally owned vehicle
  • 56. 56. Which law primarily governs carnapping?
A) Republic Act No. 9745
B) Republic Act No. 9165
C) Republic Act No. 10883
D) Republic Act No. 9344
E) Republic Act No. 10883
  • 57. 57. What is the primary element of estafa involving deceit?
A) Deceit or fraudulent means that causes damage or prejudice under circumstances defined by law
B) Killing of a person
C) Public disorder
D) Deceit or fraudulent means that causes damage or prejudice under circumstances defined by law
E) Physical violence in every case
  • 58. 58. Which crime involves issuing a check that is later dishonored, when the elements required by law are present?
A) Estafa under applicable circumstances
B) Libel
C) Direct assault
D) Treason
E) Estafa under applicable circumstances
  • 59. 59. Which crime is committed when a person knowingly makes a false statement under oath on a material matter?
A) Theft
B) Robbery
C) Grave coercion
D) Perjury
  • 60. 60. What is the essence of perjury?
A) Deliberate false testimony or statement under oath concerning a material matter
B) Taking property through violence
C) Destroying public property
D) Attacking a police officer
E) Deliberate false testimony or statement under oath concerning a material matter
  • 61. 61. Which crime involves making a false entry in a public or official document by a public officer who takes advantage of official position?
A) Falsification
B) Falsification
C) Malversation
D) Theft
E) Robbery
  • 62. 62. What is the purpose of laws against falsification?
A) To protect the integrity and reliability of documents and official records
B) To prohibit testimony
C) To protect the integrity and reliability of documents and official records
D) To eliminate government records
E) To prevent lawful contracts
  • 63. 63. Which crime involves deliberately burning property under circumstances punished by law?
A) Arson
B) Estafa
C) Theft
D) Perjury
E) Arson
  • 64. 64. What is damage to property?
A) Destroying or damaging another's property under circumstances punished by law
B) Destroying or damaging another's property under circumstances punished by law
C) Taking a person's life
D) Making a false statement
E) Arresting a suspect
  • 65. 65. Which crime is committed by a person who maliciously destroys property belonging to another?
A) Malicious mischief
B) Malicious mischief
C) Robbery
D) Estafa
E) Treason
  • 66. 66. What is malicious mischief?
A) Deliberately causing damage to another's property for the sake of causing damage
B) Taking property with intent to gain
C) Making a false statement under oath
D) Deliberately causing damage to another's property for the sake of causing damage
E) Taking public funds
  • 67. 67. Which crime involves gambling or other prohibited games when punished under the applicable law?
A) Falsification
B) Gambling-related offense
C) Theft
D) Homicide
E) Gambling-related offense
  • 68. 68. Which group of crimes primarily concerns the security of the State?
A) Crimes against property
B) Crimes against honor
C) Crimes against national security
D) Crimes against national security
E) Crimes against persons
  • 69. 69. Which group includes murder, homicide, and physical injuries?
A) Crimes against public interest
B) Crimes against honor
C) Crimes against persons
D) Crimes against property
E) Crimes against persons
  • 70. 70. Which group includes theft, robbery, and estafa?
A) Crimes against property
B) Crimes against honor
C) Crimes against persons
D) Crimes against public order
E) Crimes against property
  • 71. 71. Which group includes libel and other offenses affecting reputation?
A) Crimes against national security
B) Crimes against honor
C) Crimes against persons
D) Crimes against property
E) Crimes against honor
  • 72. 72. Which group includes rebellion, sedition, and direct assault?
A) Crimes against public order
B) Crimes against chastity
C) Crimes against honor
D) Crimes against public order
E) Crimes against property
  • 73. 73. What is sedition generally characterized by?
A) Taking personal property
B) Public and tumultuous uprising to attain specified objectives against lawful authority or for other purposes defined by law
C) Forging documents
D) Killing a family member
E) Public and tumultuous uprising to attain specified objectives against lawful authority or for other purposes defined by law
  • 74. 74. What is tumultuous disturbance of public order?
A) A civil contract
B) A lawful protest
C) Conduct that causes a serious disturbance of public peace under circumstances punished by law
D) A private disagreement
E) Conduct that causes a serious disturbance of public peace under circumstances punished by law
  • 75. 75. What is alarm and scandal?
A) Theft of property
B) Acts causing public alarm or scandal under circumstances punished by law
C) Killing another person
D) Acts causing public alarm or scandal under circumstances punished by law
E) Fraud involving documents
  • 76. 76. Which crime involves helping an offender escape punishment after the commission of a crime under circumstances defined by law?
A) Accomplice or accessory-related liability, depending on the person's participation
B) Accomplice or accessory-related liability, depending on the person's participation
C) Libel
D) Robbery
E) Theft
  • 77. 77. What is an accessory?
A) The judge
B) The prosecutor
C) A person who, after the commission of the crime, participates in ways specified by law without being a principal or accomplice
D) A person who, after the commission of the crime, participates in ways specified by law without being a principal or accomplice
E) The victim of a crime
  • 78. 78. What is an accomplice?
A) A victim
B) A person who cooperates in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous acts without being a principal
C) A witness who knows nothing about the offense
D) A person who cooperates in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous acts without being a principal
E) A judge
  • 79. 79. Who is a principal by direct participation?
A) One who directly takes part in the execution of the criminal act
B) The victim
C) One who directly takes part in the execution of the criminal act
D) One who learns about the crime afterward
E) One who reports the crime
  • 80. 80. What is conspiracy?
A) A court judgment
B) A disagreement between suspects
C) An agreement between two or more persons to commit a felony accompanied by the decision to commit it
D) An agreement between two or more persons to commit a felony accompanied by the decision to commit it
E) A police investigation
  • 81. 81. What is proposal to commit a felony?
A) When a judge issues a warrant
B) When a crime has already been completed
C) When a person reports a crime
D) When a person who has decided to commit a felony proposes its execution to another person
E) When a person who has decided to commit a felony proposes its execution to another person
  • 82. 82. Which crime involves a public officer unlawfully arresting or detaining a person?
A) Malicious mischief
B) Estafa
C) Arbitrary detention
D) Theft
E) Arbitrary detention
  • 83. 83. Who may generally be liable for arbitrary detention?
A) Only the victim
B) A public officer who detains a person without legal grounds
C) Only a witness
D) Only a private individual
E) A public officer who detains a person without legal grounds
  • 84. 84. What is delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities?
A) Libel
B) Robbery
C) Theft
D) A punishable offense under circumstances provided by law
E) A punishable offense under circumstances provided by law
  • 85. 85. Which crime involves a public officer who knowingly renders an unjust judgment or decision under circumstances specified by law?
A) Estafa
B) Knowingly rendering an unjust judgment
C) Knowingly rendering an unjust judgment
D) Malicious mischief
E) Theft
  • 86. 86. What is dereliction of duty?
A) Making a false accusation
B) Failure of a public officer to perform a legal duty under circumstances punished by law
C) Failure of a public officer to perform a legal duty under circumstances punished by law
D) Causing physical injury
E) Taking property from another
  • 87. 87. Which offense involves a public officer who unlawfully reveals secrets learned by reason of office?
A) Revelation of secrets by an officer
B) Homicide
C) Robbery
D) Revelation of secrets by an officer
E) Theft
  • 88. 88. What is abandonment of office or position?
A) Taking property from another
B) Refusing to testify
C) Leaving or abandoning an official post under circumstances punished by law
D) Resigning lawfully from a job
E) Leaving or abandoning an official post under circumstances punished by law
  • 89. 89. Which crime involves a public officer who solicits or accepts a gift in exchange for influencing another public officer?
A) Physical injuries
B) Theft
C) Indirect or related bribery offense depending on the circumstances
D) Indirect or related bribery offense depending on the circumstances
E) Robbery
  • 90. 90. What is corruption of public officials?
A) Performing public service
B) Giving, offering, or promising something to a public officer under circumstances punished by law
C) Lawful payment of taxes
D) Reporting a crime
E) Giving, offering, or promising something to a public officer under circumstances punished by law
  • 91. 91. Which crime involves taking a person away from their parents or lawful custodian under circumstances punished by law?
A) Falsification
B) Theft
C) Kidnapping or illegal detention, depending on the circumstances
D) Kidnapping or illegal detention, depending on the circumstances
E) Malversation
  • 92. 92. What is the primary protected interest in crimes against honor?
A) Government funds
B) National territory
C) Physical property
D) Reputation and good name
E) Reputation and good name
  • 93. 93. Which offense involves making an accusation against an innocent person with malicious intent under circumstances defined by law?
A) Theft
B) Malversation
C) Incriminating an innocent person
D) Robbery
E) Incriminating an innocent person
  • 94. 94. What is perjury primarily committed through?
A) A willfully false statement under oath concerning a material matter
B) Destroying a building
C) Physical violence
D) A willfully false statement under oath concerning a material matter
E) Taking property
  • 95. 95. Which crime involves refusing to give testimony or information when legally required, under circumstances punished by law?
A) Refusal to testify or related offenses under applicable provisions
B) Homicide
C) Refusal to testify or related offenses under applicable provisions
D) Robbery
E) Theft
  • 96. 96. What is the main purpose of criminalizing offenses against public interest?
A) To punish lawful conduct
B) To regulate family relationships only
C) To protect only private property
D) To protect public trust, official documents, currency, and other matters affecting society
E) To protect public trust, official documents, currency, and other matters affecting society
  • 97. 97. Which crime involves forging or falsifying currency or bank notes?
A) Forgery or falsification of currency-related offenses
B) Homicide
C) Theft
D) Grave coercion
E) Forgery or falsification of currency-related offenses
  • 98. 98. Why are crimes classified into different groups in Book Two of the Revised Penal Code?
A) To organize offenses according to the legal interest or social value protected
B) To organize offenses according to the legal interest or social value protected
C) To prevent courts from hearing cases
D) To classify victims according to wealth
E) To eliminate criminal penalties
  • 99. 99. Which of the following is an important principle when applying Book Two of the Revised Penal Code?
A) Police opinion automatically establishes guilt
B) Rumor is sufficient for conviction
C) Criminal liability must be determined according to the elements and circumstances provided by law
D) Criminal liability must be determined according to the elements and circumstances provided by law
E) A person may be punished without a legal basis
  • 100. 100. What is the overall purpose of Criminal Law Book Two?
A) To establish school regulations
B) To regulate only civil contracts
C) To define specific criminal offenses and prescribe the penalties applicable to them
D) To govern elections only
E) To define specific criminal offenses and prescribe the penalties applicable to them
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