Chapter 12 Crimes Against the Person and Human Habitation 12.1 Multiple Choice Questions 1) What is the essence of the crime of robbery? A) Exertion of force B) Threat C) All of the above D) None of the above Answer: 2) What term describes a crime containing certain elements of a more serious crime? A) Smaller included offense B) Lesser included offense C) Minor included offense D) None of the above Answer: 3) What is an example of robbery? A) Picking a person's pocket B) Forging a person's signature C) Borrowing a person's car D) Snatching a $100 dollar bill from a person Answer: 4) What term describes putting a person in fear? A) Threat of force B) Danger of force C) Warning of force D) Risk of force Answer:

5) At common law, what is an example of mayhem? A) Cutting off a toe B) Cutting off a fingernail C) Cutting off a finger D) Cutting off a lock of hair Answer: 6) What term describes disfiguration or mutilation of another? A) Maim B) Mayhem C) Aggravated assault D) Domestic violence Answer 7) To be classified as battery, the physical contact has to satisfy what requirement? A) General criminal intent B) Reckless behavior C) All of the above D) None of the above Answer: 8) What item satisfies requirements to be qualified as a dangerous weapon? A) Gulf club B) Baseball bat C) Knife D) All of the above Answer: 9) What is an example of aggravated assault? A) Assault with intent to commit felony B) Assault with intent to murder C) Assault with intent to commit unarmed robbery

D) All of the above Answer: 10) What laws prevent rape victims from re-victimization? A) Rape shield laws B) Rape refuge laws C) Rape safeguard laws D) Rape shelter laws Answer: 11) In some states, what conduct is included in sexual assault? A) Rape by fraud B) Rape by deception C) All of the above D) None of the above Answer: 12) What term describes following a person around and threatening him or her with violence? A) Chasing B) Stalking C) Shadowing D) All of the above Answer: 13) How is the Internet used in cyber-harassment? A) To make new friends B) To promote products or services C) To solicit clients D) To continuously intervene in another's life Answer: 14) What are crimes against habitation at common law? A) Burglary and arson

B) Statutory burglary and statutory arson C) All of the above D) None of the above Answer: 15) How many elements of the crime does the prosecution have to prove to convict a perpetrator of the crime of common law burglary? A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5 Answer: 16) What is curtilage? A) Farm B) Enclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling house C) Ranch D) Dwelling house and its front yard Answer: 17) Under the common law crime of burglary, the entry into the dwelling house must occur by what part of the perpetrator's body? A) Arm B) Leg C) Foot D) All of the above Answer: 18) Under the common law crime of arson, who must occupy the dwelling house? A) Perpetrator of the crime B) Person other than the perpetrator of the crime C) All of the above

D) None of the above Answer: 19) At common law, how must the fire have been set to constitute arson? A) Negligently B) Accidentally C) Intentionally D) All of the above Answer 20) What term describes a failed effort to commit arson? A) Unsuccessful arson B) Attempted arson C) Unfinished arson D) Partial arson Answer: 13.3 Fill in the Blank Questions 1) Killing a sister is called ________. Answer: 2) When a defendant argues that, despite being responsible for the act committed, he or she did nothing wrong, it is called a ________ defense. Answer: 3) A valid excuse for killing an assailant is called ________. Answer: 4) An old rule controlling the doctrine of causation in murder cases is called the ________ rule. Answer: 5) The person is motivated by cruelty and hostility when ________ is present. Answer 6) When doctors prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill people who have six months left to live, it is called ________ suicide.

Answer: 7) Under earlier statutes, murder in the second degree was punished by ________ imprisonment. Answer 8) In some states, a murder committed with an implied malice is qualified as ________ murder. Answer: 9) When voluntary manslaughter occurs, a(n) ________ to kill exists. Answer: 10) Involuntary manslaughter is defined in criminal ________. Answer: 14.2 True/False Questions 1) Adultery is a crime in all states. Answer: 2) Under Maryland's statute, adultery is punished by a $10 fine. Answer: 3) Bigamy is not a criminal offense in the U.S. Answer: 4) If a woman married a man in good faith, not knowing that he is married, this marriage is valid immediately after it has been contracted. Answer: 5) Grandchildren are related to their grandparents by consanguinity. Answer: 6) In all states marriages between people related by affinity are prohibited. Answer: 7) There is a very specific description of the crime of sodomy in statutes and court decisions. Answer: 8) The U.S. Supreme Court made a decision about state anti-sodomy laws.

Answer: 9) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws may prohibit abortions during the last three months of pregnancy. Answer: 10) Before 1967, interracial marriages were illegal in the U.S. Answer: 11) Pornography and obscenity are protected under the freedom of speech provision of the Bill of Rights. Answer: 12) According to a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, even minors cannot consider all nudity to be obscene. Answer: 13) Low-dose codeine cough medicine, a drug on Schedule V, is very strictly controlled. Answer 14) The federal act imposes penalties on persons for illegal drug trafficking. Answer: 15) Many states made the Uniform Controlled Substances Act part of their state law. Answer: 16) No state law contradicts with federal law on marijuana. Answer: 14.3 Fill in the Blank Questions 1) To convict defendants of the crime of adultery, the prosecution must prove beyond a ________ doubt that the illegal act occurred. Answer: 2) The marital status of having several wives or husbands at the same time is called ________. Answer: 3) A woman and her daughter-in-law are related by ________. Answer: 4) Sexual intercourse of a person with an animal in called ________.

Answer: 5) According to decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, women have rights to terminate pregnancy by having a(n) ________. Answer: