Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Obligations and Contract (Law I)

Quiz No. 1
(Module 1 and 2)

Name: ___________________________________________________ Score: _____________________

I. Encircle the best answer.
1. Which of following is the form of obligations?
a. Oral
b. In Writing
c. Partly Oral and Partly in Writing
d. All of the Above
2. There shall no liability for loss due to fortuitous
events in one of the following cases, which is it?
a. When the debtor incurs delay
b. When the parties stipulated that there shall be
liability even in case of loss due to fortuitous events
c. When the nature of the obligation requires the
assumption of risk
d. When the obligation to deliver is a generic thing
3. It is a wrong committed without any pre-existing
relations between the parties.
a. Natural Obligations
b. Quasi-delict
c. Quasi-contract
d. Acts or omission punished by law
4. Unless the law or the stipulations of the parties
require another standard of care, every person obliged
to give something is also obliged to take care of it with:
a. extra-ordinary diligence
b. diligence of a father of a good family
c. diligence of a good father of a family
d. good diligence of a father of a family
5. Which of following is an example of a Private Law?
a. Criminal Law
b. Civil Law
c. Administrative Law
d. All of the Above
6. P took a public bus going to his office. Although P
paid his fare, the bus conductor did not issue him a
ticket. Along the way, the bus met an accident causing a
slight injury to P and other passengers. If P is to recover
damages from the bus owner, the source of the bus
owner’s liability is:
a. contract
b. quasi-delict
c. law
d. P cannot recover because no ticket was issued
7. A and B are owners of adjacent farms. One day B got
sick and failed to visit his farm. When A noticed that B
was not around, he took care of the animals by feeding
them and cleaning the pig and poultry pens. A did this
for 3 days until B returned. A incurred an expense
amounting to P 5,000.00. Under the circumstances, B is
obliged to reimburse A for such expenses which the
latter incurred by reason of:
a. contract
b. solution indebiti
c. negotriorum gestio
d. quasi-delict
8. Three of the following statements pertain to natural
obligation. Which one does not?
a. It is not enforceable in the courts of justice
b. Obligation exist by reason of equity and moral justice
c. If performed voluntarily, recovery can no longer be
made.
d. There is a juridical necessity to perform it.
9. The following are the requisites of an obligation,
except:
a. passive subject
b. active subject
c. efficient cause
d. demand
10. It refers to the voluntary administration of property
of another without his consent
a. Negotiorum Gestio
b. Solutio Indebiti
c. Quasi-contract
d. Contract
11. One of the following is a determinate thing. Which is
it?
a. a cow
b. a dog named blackie
c. Honda Car with plate no. DSD 765
d. a ring with diamond embellishment
12. D stole the carabao of C. D was tried in court and
convicted. Aside from being sentenced to prison, D was
ordered to return the carabao. However, the carabao
died before D could deliver it to C.
a. D is not liable to C if the cause of the death of the
carabao is a fortuitous event
b. D is liable to C only if the carabao died because of D’s
fault
c. D is liable to C whatever may be the cause of death b. creditor
of the carabao c. both the debtor and creditor
d. D has no liability to C whatever may be the cause of d. neither the debtor and creditor
death of the carabao.
21. A stipulation that demand shall not be necessary in
13. Which of following is a Public Law? order to make the debtor in delay is generally to the
a. Criminal Law disadvantage of the:
b. Civil Law a. debtor
c. Mercantile Law b. creditor
d. All of the Above c. both the debtor and creditor
d. neither the debtor and creditor
14. Which of following is a Source of Law?
a. Constitution 22. The young and other products of animals, produced
b. Statutory Law without the intervention of human labor are considered
c. Jurisprudence as:
d. All of the Above a. civil fruits
b. industrial fruits
15. D is obliged to give his car to C on December 1,
c. natural fruits
2018. On December 1, 2018, D did not deliver the car.
d. accessions
The following day, armed men took the car from D’s
garage.
a. D’s obligation to give the car is extinguished due to
23. Obligations may arise from any of the following,
fortuitous event
except:
b. D must give another car of the same kind to C
a. Contracts
c. D is obliged to pay damages to C
b. Quasi-contracts
d. D must give another car or pay damages at the
c. Law
option of C.
d. Prestation

16. The creditor has the right to the fruits of the thing
24. It is a thing that is particularly designated or
from the time:
physically segregated from all others of the same
a. the thing and its fruits have actually been delivered
class.
b. the contract is perfected
a. Generic thing
c. the obligation to deliver it arises
b. Indeterminate thing
d. the payment of the price of the thing and its fruits
c. Determinate thing
has been made
d. Real thing

17. The obligation of a school to provide its students a

safe and secure environment and an atmosphere
25. This refers to delay on the part of the creditor.
conducive for learning is an obligation arising from:
a. mora solvendi ex re
a. law
b. companesatio morae
b. contract
c. more solvendi ex personae
c. quasi-contract
d. mora accipiendi
d. quasi-delict

26. Statement 1: A civil obligation is based on positive

18. Which following is a Characteristics of Law?
law which gives a right of action to compel their
a. It is a rule of Conduct
performance in case of breach.
b. It is promulgated by Legitimate Authority
Statement 2: Negligence, as a ground for damages,
c. It is of common observance and benefit
refers to the non-performance of an obligation with
d. All of the Above
respect to time.
19. The waiver of an action for fraud is valid in the case a. Only Statement 2 is correct.
of: b. Only Statement 2 is wrong
a. future fraud c. Both Statements are correct
b. past fraud d. Both Statements are wrong
c. both and a and b
d. neither a and b 27. This law deals with the nature and sources of
obligations and the rights and duties arising from
20. The absence of stipulation in liability of fortuitous agreements and the particular contracts:
event is generally to the advantage of the: a. Civil Code provisions on Human Relations
a. debtor b. Civil Code provisions on Property
 c. Civil Code provisions on Obligations and Contracts
d. Civil Code provisions on Wills and Succession.

28. Under Art. 1157, Obligations arise from the following

except:
a. Torts
b. Quasi-Contracts
c. Quasi-Obligations
d. Quasi-Delicts