Q1: New Zealand and India have both granted legal person status to

national parks

animals

environmental organizations

rivers

Q2: Steve agrees to sell his guitar to John for $300 in one week.The next day, Steve regrets his decision to sell.Steve

can back out of the deal if he does so before John gives him the $300

can claim impossibility of performance

can reject the offer and make a counteroffer

will be in material breach of the contract if he backs out

Q:3 Gene bought a gas station from Pretty Good Gas Company without inspecting the property.Unknown to Gene, there was an underground leak in a gas storage tank, and gasoline was contaminating the soil and water.Because he didn't know of the leak at the time of purchase, Gene can assert the innocent landowner defense to avoid liability.

False

True

Q:4 Under the law, it's possible to be liable for fraud even if you didn't intend to trick someone.

True

False

Q5: Carrie's house is beneath the flight path of the city airport.If she wants to sue for harms, she will be most successful in arguing

trespass to land

attractive nuisance

invasion of privacy

negligence

Q6: To succeed in a product liability suit based on strict liability, a plaintiff must prove that the product was defective.

True

False

Q:7 Like most successful companies, Phones Inc. has trade secrets. The law protects those secrets if the information is

cataloged by the company as "confidential."

not revealed to outside parties.

useful and is in fact used by the company.

of value to a competitor.

Q8: Jeff starts a small consulting business in Oregon under the name "Jeff Stolle Consulting."Shortly thereafter, another Jeff in Nebraska starts a small grocery product line called "Jeff Fine Foods."The Oregon Jeff Stolle will likely be successful in a trademark dilution case against Nebraska Jeff .

False

True

Q9: In negligence cases, courts rarely grant

special damages.

general damages.

punitive damages.

compensatory damages.

Q10: Lester borrows his neighbor's leaf blower with permission.When the neighbor asks for it back, Lester says that he already gave it back (but he didn't).Lester is liable for the tort of

appropriation.

trespass to personal property.

disparagement of property.

conversion.