• Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water.As they walked, they discussed Jill's feeling that Jack had been a bit too friendly with her friend, Bo Peep.Rather than make any type of apology, Jack instead replied in a manner which caused Jill to become angry.As they started down the hill, Jill pushed Jack from behind, causing him to tumble down the hill and bump his head on a rock.Jill has committed the intentional tort of _________ against Jack.

a. negligence

b. battery

c. indecency

d. assault

• A widely applied test for causation in fact is the ________________ test in which it is determined that a person's conduct is a cause of an event if the event would not have occurred without the person's negligent conduct.

a. but-for

b. dangerous activites

c. foreseeability

d. factual cause

• Tom Principal wishes to buy a piece of property.Fearing that the owners will ask more money from him than they would ask from a stranger due to his ownership of the adjacent property, he asks that his friend, Eric, act as his agent in the matter.The owners of the property are never informed that Eric is acting on behalf of a third party and they complete the sale to Eric, never knowing of the interest of anyone else in the contract until after the sale is consummated.In this set of circumstances, Eric would be a/an:

a. unidentified principal

b. undisclosed principal

c. principal after the fact

d. agent

• To establish the tort of trespass, the Plaintiff must prove that his/her property was heavily damaged by the alleged intruder.

a. True

b. False