QUIZ -CRIMINAL LAW BOOK 1

1. The act of a person under this circumstance is in accordance with law, so that such person
is deemed not to have transgressed the law and is free from both criminal and civil
liabilities.
a. Justifying circumstance
b. Exempting circumstance
c. Absolutory cause
d. Self defense
2. The following are the circumstances that must concur in order that self defense be
justified, except:
a. Unlawful aggression
b. Reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel unlawful aggression
c. Lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the person defending himself
d. Lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the aggressor
3. There is no self-defense if there is no unlawful aggression.
a. True
b. False
c. Partly true
d. Partly false
4. Anyone who acts in defense of the person or rights of his spouse, ascendants,
descendants, or legitimate, natural or adopted brothers or sisters, or of his relatives by
affinity in the same degrees and those by consanguinity within the fourth civil degree is
called?
a. Self-defense
b. Defense of relatives
c. Defense of strangers
d. Defense of family
5. Which one is not a requisite of defense of a relative?
a. Unlawful aggression
b. Reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel the aggression
c. In case the provocation was given by the person attacked, that the one making the
defense had part therein
d. In case the provocation was given by the person attacked, that the one making the
defense had no part therein
6. These are relatives who can be defended, except:
a. Spouse
b. Ascendants/descendants
c. legitimate, natural or adopted brothers or sisters, or of his relatives by affinity in the
same degrees and those by consanguinity within the fourth civil degree
d. legitimate, natural or adopted brothers or sisters, or of his relatives by affinity in the
same degrees and those by consanguinity within the third civil degree
7. Anyone who acts in defense of the person or rights of a stranger provided that the
following requisites concur except:
a. Unlawful aggression
b. Reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel it
c. The person defending is not induced by revenge, resentment or other evil motive
d. The person attacking is not induced by revenge, resentment or other evil motive
8. These are the requisites of the so called state of necessity, which one is not?
a. The evil sought to be avoided does not actually exist
b. The evil sought to be avoided actually exist
c. The injury feared be greater that that done to avoid it
d. That there be no other practical and less harmful means of preventing it
e. None of the above
9. Any person who acts in the fulfilment of a duty or in the lawful exercise of a right or
office is justified under the law.
a. True
 b. False
c. Partly true
d. Partly false
10. A constructed a small house in a piece of land which he believed to be a disposable
public land. He had been occupying the lot for over a year. One day, B came and claimed
ownership over the land. B proceeded in dismantling the house of A. A pleaded B to stop
but his plea fell on deaf ears. Thereupon, A pulled B to prevent him from further
dismantling his house. In the process, B fell on the ground and suffered physical injuries.
Is A liable for the injuries sustained by B?
a. Yes, under the proximate cause
b. Yes, under the doctrine of state necessity
c. No, under the doctrine of self-help
d. No, under the doctrine of reasonable force
11. Suppose in the same problem above, A shot B with his cal 45 pistol instead of pulling
down B and B dies as a result. Was A justified in doing so?
a. No, because he used unreasonable force in preventing the invasion of his property
b. No, because he used necessary force in preventing the invasion of his property
c. Yes, because he was only defending his property
d. Yes, because he was justified in protecting his property
12. These are the requisites in obedience to a lawful order of a superior in order to be
justified, except one.
a. That an order has been issued by a superior
b. Such order must be for some lawful purpose
c. That the means used by the subordinate to carry out such order is lawful
d. Such order must be for some unlawful purpose
13. It refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms
found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse.
a. Battered woman syndrome
b. Battered man syndrome
c. Battery
d. Anti-violence against women and their children
14. If a policeman, upon order of the Chief of police, kills a suspect for not giving an extra-
judicial confession, is the policeman justified in killing the suspect?
a. Yes, because the order is illegal and the policeman is not bound to obey it
b. Yes, because the order is legal and the policeman is bound by the order of the Chief
of police
c. No, because the suspect resisted for not giving a confession
d. No,because the suspect is a criminal
15. Battered woman syndrome is a new justifying circumstance even without the elements of
self-defense under the Revised Penal Code.
a. True
b. False
c. Partly true
d. Partly false
16. One night, while A was walking along the alley going to their house, he was accosted by
several men whom he believed to be under the intoxication of a heavy liquor. He was
punched and boxed by these men which caused him to have sustained physical injuries.
While he was being punched , he managed to escape until he reached their house. Anger
on what these men did to him, he got the M16 Armalite of his father who was then
sleeping and pursued these men until he saw them. Once sighted, A fired continuously
which caused the death of four (4) and the injury of the other. Is A justified in doing so?
a. Yes, because there was an unlawful aggression from the victims
b. Yes, because he was only defending himself
c. No, because unlawful aggression ceased when he ran away from the victims
d. No, because his act is not reasonable
17. It contemplates an actual, sudden and unexpected attack, or imminent danger thereof and
not merely a threatening or intimidating attitude.
 a. Unlawful aggression
b. Provocation
c. Treachery
d. Abuse of superior strength
18. Oca calls George “Pogi” although the latter is ugly. George kills Oca. Is George justified
in killing Oca?
a. Yes, because of the provocation employed by Oca
b. No, because the provocation made by Oca is not sufficient
c. Yes, because of the unlawful aggression
d. No, because the provocation is sufficient
19. A, the executor of death convicts at the New Bilibid Prison, by order of the court,
implements the death penalty upon B that caused his death. Is A liable for the death of B?
a. No, because he merely acting in lawful exercise of his office
b. NO, because he was just performing his duty
c. Yes, because killing a person is punishable
d. Yes, because he not justified under the law
20. It is a wrongful criminal intent.
a. Mens rea
b. Actus rea
c. Wrongful criminal mind
d. Felony

Prepared by:
ATTY. LEONARD M MAMERGA, Rcrim, JD, BSA
Police Lieutenant
Instructor