BOOK 1 – TESTBANK

1. Infractions of mere rules of convenience designed to secure a more orderly regulation of

the affairs of the society.
A. mala prohibita
B. mala in se
C. private crimes
D. public crimes

2. Deliberate planning of act before execution.

A. Treachery
B. evident premeditation
C. ignominy
D. cruelty

3. Whenever more than 3 armed malefactors shall have acted together in the commission of
a crime.
A. gang
B. conspiracy
C. band
D. piracy

4. The failure to perform a positive duty which one is bound to.

A. Negligence
B. imprudence
C. omission
D. act

5. Ways and means are employed for the purpose of trapping and capturing the law breaker
in the execution of his criminal plan.
A. Misfeasance
B. entrapment
C. inducement
D. instigation

6. Those where the act committed is a crime but for reasons of public policy and sentiment
there is no penalty imposed.
A. impossible crimes
B. aggravating circumstances
C. absolutory causes
D. complex crimes

7. One of the following is an alternative circumstance.

A. Insanity
B. intoxication
C. passion or obfuscation
D. evident premeditation

8. The offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches an
equal or greater penalty or two or more crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty.
A. reiteracion
B. recidivism
C. quasi-recidivism
D. habitual delinquency

9. An act or omission which is a result of a misapprehension of facts that is voluntary but not
intentional.
A. impossible crime
B. mistake of facts
C. accidental crime
D. complex crime

10. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.

A. ignorantia legis non excusat
B. parens patriae
C. res ipsa loquitur
D. dura lex sed lex

11. An act which would be an offense against persons or property if it was not for the inherent
impossibility of its accomplishment.
A. compound crime
B. impossible crime
C. complex crime
D. accidental crime

12. The law which reimposed the death penalty.

A. RA 5425
B. RA 8553
C. RA 7659
D. RA 8551

13. One who is deprived completely of reason or discernment and freedom of the will at the
time of the commission of the crime.
A. discernment
B. insanity
C. epilepsy
D. imbecility

14. The quality by which an act may be subscribed to a person as its owner or author.
A. responsibility
B. duty
C. guilt
D. imputability

15. Something that happen outside the sway of our will, and although it comes about through
some acts of our will, lies beyond the bounds of humanly foreseeable consequences.
A. fortuitous event
B. fate
C. accident
D. destiny
61. Known in other countries as the body of principles, practices, usages and rules of action
which are not recognized in our country.
A. penal laws
B. special laws
C. common laws
D. statutory laws

16. Circumstances wherein there is an absence in the agent of the crime any of all the
conditions that would make an act voluntary and hence, though there is no criminal liability there
is civil liability.
A. Exempting
B. alternative
C. justifying
D. aggravating

17. A method fixed by law for the apprehension and prosecution of persons alleged to have
committed a crime, and for their punishment in case of conviction.
A. Criminal Law
B. Criminal Evidence
C. Criminal Procedure
D. Criminal Jurisprudence

18. The period of prescription of crimes punishable by death.

A. 20 years
B. 15 years
C. 10 years
D. 40 years

19. Persons who take direct part in the execution of a crime.

A. Accomplices
B. Accessories
C. Instigators
D. Principals

20. A special aggravating circumstance where a person, after having been convicted by final
judgment, shall commit a new felony before beginning to serve such sentence, or while serving
the same.
A. quasi-recidivism
B. recidivism
C. reiteracion
D. charivari

21. It means that the resulting injury is greater than that which is intended.
A. Aberratio ictus
B. Error in personae
C. Dura Lex Sed lex
D. Praeter Intentionem

22. It means mistake in the blow.

A. Aberratio Ictus
B. Error in Personae
C. Dura lex sed lex
D. Praeter Intentionem
23. A stage of execution when all the elements necessary for its execution and
accomplishment are present.
A. Attempted
B. Frustrated
C. Consummated
D. Accomplished

24. An act or omission which is the result of a misapprehension of facts that is voluntary but
not intentional.
A. Absolutory Cause
B. Mistake of facts
C. Conspiracy
D. Felony

25. Crimes that have three stages of execution.

A. Material
B. Formal
C. Seasonal
D. Continuing

26. Felonies where the acts or omissions of the offender are malicious.
A. Culpable
B. Intentional
C. Deliberate
D. Inculpable

27. It indicates deficiency of perception.

A. Negligence
B. Diligence
C. Imprudence
D. Inference

28. Acts and omissions punishable by special penal laws.

A. Offenses
B. Misdemeanours
C. Felonies
D. Ordinances

29. A character of Criminal Law, making it binding upon all persons who live or sojourn in the
Philippines.
A. General
B. Territorial
C. Prospective
D. Retroactive

30. A legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial.

A. Bill of Attainder
B. Bill of Rights
C. Ex Post Facto Law
D. Penal Law

31. The taking of a person into custody in order that he may be bound to answer for the
commission of an offense.
A. Search
B. Seizure
C. Arrest
D. Detention

32. What crime exists when a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave felonies
or when an offense is a necessary means for committing the other?
A. Complex
B. Composite
C. Continuing
D. compound

33. What must be considered in determining whether the crime committed is only attempted,
frustrated or consummated?
A. All of these
B. The elements constituting the felony
C. The nature of the offense
D. The manner of committing the felony

34. Circumstances wherein the acts of the person are in accordance with the law, and hence,
he incurs no criminal and civil liability.
A. exempting
B. alternative
C. justifying
D. aggravating

35. When the offender enjoys and delights in making his victim suffers slowly and gradually,
causing him unnecessary physical pain in the consummation of the criminal act.
A. Ignominy
B. cruelty
C. treachery
D. masochism

36. One, who at the time of his trial for one crime shall have been previously convicted by final
judgment of another crime embraced in the same title of the Revised Penal Code.
A. Recidivism
B. habitual delinquency
C. reiteracion
D. quasi-recidivism

37. Alevosia means

A. Craft
B. treachery
C. evident premeditation
D. cruelty
38. The law hears before it condemns, proceeds upon inquiry and render judgment after a fair
trial.
A. ex post facto law
B. equal protection of the law
C. rule of law
D. due process of law

39. A person if within a period of 10 years from the date of his release or last conviction of the
crime of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or falsification, he is found
guilty of any of the said crimes a third time or oftener.
A. Recidivist
B. quasi-recidivist
C. habitual delinquent
D. hardened criminal

40. What crime is committed against mankind, and whose jurisdiction consequently
recognizes no territorial limits?
A. Piracy
B. Felonies
C. Theft
D. Suicide

41. Heads of State or Ambassadors can NOT be held criminally liable in another state or
place of assignment under the principles of international law. This is an EXCEPTION to the
general characteristic of Criminal Law which is
A. Prospectivity
B. Generality
C. Territoriality
D. Immunity

42. Refers generally to acts made criminal by special laws

A. Felony
B. Mala Inse
C. Mala Incest
D. Mala prohibita

43. Ignorantia Facti Excusat means:

A. Ignorance of the law
B. Mistake of facts
C. Mistake of the blow
D. Mistake in identity

44. Under this Rule, crimes are not triable in the courts of that country, unless their
commission affects the peace and security of the territory or the safety of the state is
endangered.
A. French Rule
B. Spanish Rule
C. American Rule
D. English Rule
45. Infractions to the law punishable by Aresto Menor or a fine not exceeding 200 pesos or
both.
A. Grave
B. Light
C. Less grave
D. Serious

46. What circumstance can be considered aggravating with the slaying of an 80 year old
woman?
A. abuse of confidence
B. disregard of age and sex
C. neglect of elders
D. disrespect of rank

47. Acts of a person which are said to be in accordance with the law, so that such person is
deemed not to have transgressed the law and is free from both criminal and civil liability.
A. Justifying circumstances
B. Mitigating Circumstance
C. Exempting circumstances
D. Aggravating circumstances

48. An aggravating circumstance which generally apply to all crimes such as dwelling, night
time or recidivism.
A. Generic
B. Specific
C. Qualifying
D. Inherent

49. Who are criminally liable, when having knowledge of the commission of the crime,
without having principally participated therein, takes part subsequent to the commission, either
in profiting by the effects of the crime or by concealing or destroying the body of the crime?
A. Witnesses
B. Accessories
C. Principals
D. Accomplices

50. They are aggravating circumstance which change the nature of the crime, e.i. homicide
to murder in case of treachery
A. Generic
B. Specific
C. Qualifying
D. Inherent