QUIZ ON CHAPTER 2 NATURE AND EFFECTS
OF OBLIGATIONS
1. The rule of law :
A. the Constitution is the supreme law of
the land and no one is above the law.
B. the Constitution is the supreme law of
the land and the Supreme Court upholds
the Constitution.
C. the Supreme Court is the supreme law of
the land and no one is above the law.
D. the Bill of Rights is the supreme law of
the land and immigrants are not
accountable for violating it.
2. Which of the following is an obligation of
citizenship?
A. being informed about issues
B. volunteering for public service
C. voting in elections
D. paying taxes
3. What would be the most likely
consequence to society if citizens began
refusing to fulfill their citizenship
responsibilities?
A. People would face the threat of losing
their individual rights and freedoms.
B. People would have more free time
because they would have fewer social
obligations.
C. People would benefit from the direction
of strong leaders who would guard their
freedoms.
D. People would find that society was able
to look after itself with the help of civic
participation.
4. Members of a local teen center are
disappointed with a state law that would
create a curfew. The curfew would make it
illegal for children to be out of their homes
after 10:00 pm. Which of these actions
would be a good way for the members of
the teen center to oppose this law?
A. stay out at night and break the law on
purpose
B. ignore the law and pretend they never
heard about it
C. convince people to sign a petition against
the law
D. hold a car wash to raise money for the
teen center
5. Which example is NOT a responsibility of
citizenship?
A. volunteering in the community
B. attending civic meetings
C. voting in elections
D. paying taxes
6. Which type of service project would help
promote the common good?
A. planning a neighborhood recycling
program
B. participating in a neighborhood party
C. completing homework on time
D. visiting public libraries
7. Activities citizens must do are called . . .
A. rights.
B. responsibilities.
C. obligations.
D. common good.
8. "Suffrage" is . . .
A. the right to vote.
B. the right to a trial by a jury of peers.
C. the right to petition the government.
D. registering for selective service.
9. Activities citizens should do are called . . . B. Article 1164
C. Article 1165
A. rights. D. Article 1166
B. responsibilities.
C. obligations. 14. ________ are the spontaneous products
D. petitions. of the soil, and the young and other
products of animals
10. Every person obliged to give
something is also obliged to take care of it A. Personal fruits
with the proper diligence of a good father B. Civil fruits
of a family, unless the law or the stipulation C. Industrial fruits
of the parties requires another standard of D. Natural fruits
care.
15. ________ is the right or power of a
A. Article 1170 person (creditor) to demand from the
B. Article 1164 another (debtor), as a definite passive
C. Article 1163 subject, the fulfillment of the latter’s
D. Article 1165 obligation to give, to do, or not to do

11. “Something” in the provision refers to A. real right

an obligation involving a B. constitutional right
________specific or determinate thing. C. judicial right
D. personal right
A. specification thing
B. determinate thing 16. ________ is the right or interest of a
C. indeterminate thing person over a specific thing (like ownership,
D. generic thing possession, mortgage), without a definite
passive subject against whom the right may
12. A generic or indeterminate thing refers be personally enforced.
only to a _____ to which it pertains and
cannot be pointed out with particularity A. personal right
B. constitutional
A. kind C. real right
B. genius D. legal right
C. type
D. class 17. When what is to be delivered is
a determinate thing, the creditor, in
13. The creditor has a right to the fruits of addition to the right granted him by Article
the thing from the time the obligation to 1170, may compel the debtor to make the
deliver it arises. However, he shall acquire delivery
no real right over it until the same has been
delivered to him. A. Article 1163
B. Article 1164
A. Article 1163 C. Article 1165
D. Article 1166 D. Accessions

18. In an obligation to deliver a determinate 23. _________ are things joined to or

thing, the very thing itself must be delivered included with the principal thing for the
latter’s embellishment, better use, or
A. Article 1244 completion
B. Article 1245
C. Article 1246 A. Accessories
D. Article 1246 B. Ascencions
C. Accessiories
19. It should be clear, however, that the law D. Accessions
_______ mean that the creditor can use
force or violence upon the debtor 24. If a person obliged to do something fails
to do it, the same shall be executed at his
A. does cost
B. will
C. does not A. Article 1164
D. will not B. Article 1165
C. Article 1166
20. A generic real obligation can be D. Article 1167
performed by ____ person since the object
is expressed only according to its family or 25. When the obligation consists in not
genus. doing, and the obligor does what has been
forbidden him, it shall also be undone at his
A. a first expense.
B. a second
C. a third A. Article 1166
D. a fourth B. Article 1167
C. Article 1168
21. The obligation to give a determinate D. Article 1169
thing includes that of delivering all its
accessions and accessories, even though 26. In an obligation not to do, the duty of
they may not have been mentioned. the obligor is to abstain from an act. Here,
there is no specific performance. The very
A. Article 1163 obligation is fulfilled in not doing what is
B. Article 1164 forbidden. Hence, in this kind of obligation
C. Article 1165 the debtor cannot be guilty of ________.
D. Article 1166
A. neglect
22. ______ are the fruits of a thing or B. delay
additions to or improvements upon a thing C. non-compliance
A. Accessories
B. Ascensions 27. Those obliged to deliver or to do
C. Accessions something incur in delay from the time the
obligee judicially or extra-judicially demands
from them the fulfillment of their obligation

A. Article 1166
B. Article 1167
C. Article 1168
D. Article 1169

28. In ________ obligations, neither party

incurs in delay if the other does not comply
or is not ready to comply in a proper
manner with what is incumbent upon him.
From the moment one of the parties fulfills
his obligation, delay by the other begins.

A. reverse
B. inverse
C. reciprocal
D. retrograde

29. _________the delay on the part of the

creditor to accept the performance of the
obligation

A. Mora solvendi
B. Mora accipiendi
C. Compensation Morae

30. In _______ the effect is the delay of the

obligor cancels the delay of the obligee and
vice versa

A. mora solvendi
B. mora accipiendi
C. compensation morae