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