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Multiple Choice:
General Direction: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only ONE
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HERCOR COLLEGE
TEAM*
GUEST (OUTSIDER)
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a. Inherent
b. Fundamental
c. Inalienable
d. Indivisible
Correct answer
d. Indivisible
2. Human rights apply to anyone. Whatever origin, status, condition, or place where one lives. It
is _______.
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a. Inherent
b. Fundamental
c. Universal
d. Interdependent
3. This is a warrant issued by a court bearing its seal and the signature of the judge directing the
jail or prison authorities to receive an inmates for custody or service of sentence imposed
therein.*
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a. Warrant of arrest
b. Mittimus
c. Search Warrant
d. Commitment Order
Correct answer
b. Mittimus
4. These rights are conferred and protected by the constitution and cannot be modified or taken
away by the law-making body.*
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a. Natural rights
b. Constitutional rights
c. Statutory rights
d. Human rights
Correct answer
b. Constitutional rights
a. Chief BJMP
b. Operations Division
d. Chief of Staff
Correct answer
b. Operations Division
6. This refers to assigning or grouping of inmates according to their sentence, gender, age,
nationality, health, criminal records, etc.*
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a. Commitment
b. Classification
c. Rehabilitation
d. Reformation
7. Stage in human rights wherein the support for the ideas become strong, and thus incorporate
it into legal instruments.*
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a. Idealization
b. Positivist
c. Realization
d. Positivism
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d. Positivism
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d. Supreme Court
9. The least punishment in jail for prisoners who violated rules and regulations.*
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a. Extra fatigue
c. Close confinement
d. Reprimand
Correct answer
d. Reprimand
10. According to this person, the Bill of Rights is to declare some forbidden zones in the private
sphere inaccessible to any power holder.
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11. Prisoner shall remain in the RDC for a period not exceeding.*
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a. 60 days
b. 30 days
c. 55 days
d. 45 days
Correct answer
c. 55 days
12. Custodial Rights of Person can be found on ________ of The 1987 Constitution.*
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a. Sec 3, Art 12
d. Sec 2, Art 13
Correct answer
13. Any waiver by a person arrested or detained under provisions of Article 125 of the Revised
Penal Code, or under custodial investigation, _______________; otherwise the waiver shall be
null and void and of no effect.*
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a. shall be in writing and signed by such person in the presence of his counsel
b. in the presence of any of any of the parents, elder brothers and sisters, his spouse, the
municipal mayor, the municipal judge, district school supervisor, or priest or minister of the
gospel as chosen by him
c. shall be allowed visits by or conferences with any member of his immediate family, or any
medical doctor or priest or religious minister chosen by him or by any member of his immediate
family or by his counsel, or by any national non-governmental organization duly accredited by
the Commission on Human rights of by any international non-governmental organization duly
accredited by the Office of the President
d. is signed, or thumb marked if the person arrested or detained does not know how to read and
write, it shall be read and adequately explained to him by his counsel or by the assisting counsel
provided by the investigating officer in the language or dialect known to such arrested or
detained person, otherwise, such investigation report shall be null and void and of no effect
whatsoever.
14. Prisoner file management systems shall be used to generate reliable data about trends
relating to and characteristics of the prison population, including occupancy rates, in order to
create a basis for evidence-based decision making.*
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a. True
b. False
c. Partially true
d. Partially false
Correct answer
a. True
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a. Directly
b. Indirectly
d. Indefinitely
Correct answer
16. Restorative Justice program is a part of the rehabilitation of the client which is incorporated
in the clients _________.*
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a. Conditions
b. Treatment plan
d. Supervision
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17. It is an environment that helps people get help while helping others. It is a treatment
environment: the interactions of its members are designed to be therapeutic within the context
of the norms that require for each to play the dual role of client-therapist.*
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a. Restorative Justice
b. Institutional Correction
c. Non-Institutional Correction
d. Therapeutic Community
18. In TC, work assignments, called _________ are arranged in a hierarchy, according to
seniority, individual progress and productivity.
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a. Work functions
b. Assignments
c. Job functions
d. Job assignments
Correct answer
c. Job functions
19. It is an outpatient program that requires clients to report twice a week to an outreach center.
They are required to attend group sessions to ensure their adjustment to life outside the jail to
reduce recidivism.
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a. Re-entry
b. Pre re-entry
c. Aftercare
d. Primary Treatment
Correct answer
c. Aftercare
20. As provided for under The Nelson Mandela Rules, the education of illiterate prisoners and of
young prisoners shall be ___________ and special attention shall be paid to it by the prison
administration.*
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a. unnecessary
b. compulsory
c. involuntary
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a. Specific deterrence
b. General deterrence
c. Both a and c
Correct answer
b. General deterrence
22. In restorative justice process, the victim is allowed and has the opportunity to meet his or
her offender face-to-face.*
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a. True. The offender will be in prison anyway so she/he would not be able to hurt the victim.
b. True. The meeting of the victim and the offender will be in a secured and structured setting so
the safety of the victim will not be compromised.
c. False. The meeting of the offender and the victim should be discouraged as the safety of the
victim is the paramount concern.
d. False. The victim or his family members might endanger the life of the offender.
23. Prisoners who are incarcerated with a fine of more than five hundred pesos or those
sentenced for violation of custom law, immigration law and election law.*
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a. city prisoner
b. municipal prisoner
c. district prisoner
d. national prisoner
Correct answer
d. national prisoner
24. A shoplifter is ordered to repay a store owner for the cost of a stolen item, and an assailant
must pay for their victim’s medical expenses after a violent assault. These are examples of
__________, an intervention which can be agreed upon during the restorative justice process.*
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d. Restitution
25. Amnesty is being given by the President and there is no other requirement to complete the
process.*
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Correct answer
26. What agency has the authority to recommend to the President for the release of qualified
prisoners for pardon and other form of executive clemency.
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a. Department of Justice
27. If the applicant whose application for probation has been given due course by the proper
court has failed to present himself to the proper office within seventy two hours from receipt of
the probation order the probation office shall first exert best effort to inquire of search or locate
his whereabouts before he will be reported and he is considered as what kind of applicant?*
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a. Missing
b. Confidential
c. Collateral
d. Absconding
Correct answer
d. Absconding
28. Below are the salient features of Therapeutic Community. Which one is not among them?*
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29. The existing policy on the grant of absolute pardon under this scheme is that ten years after
the released from prison must pass before an ex-convict applying for said pardon will be
granted. But eventually this was shortened to __________ years.
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a. Five years
b. Six years
c. Seven years
d. Eight years
Correct answer
a. Five years
30. The following are the Therapeutic Community process, there are categories of activity that
help promote the change, except:*
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a. Relational/ behavioral
b. psychosexual/ sexual
c. cognitive/ intellectual
d. affective/ emotional
Correct answer
b. psychosexual/ sexual
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33. From among the following, who may apply for preventive imprisonment?*
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Correct answer
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35. Positions in the jail service have the following characteristics, except one:*
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d. Security of tenure
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36. Which of the following schemes is not part of the career progression and development
program?
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37. Which of the following is not considered as a function of the Jail Bureau?
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38. It is awarded to a BJMP member who must perform, in action, a deed of personal bravery
and self sacrifice above and beyond the call of duty, so conspicuously done as to distinguish
himself above the others in the performance of more than ordinary hazardous service.
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Correct answer
39. It is a well established rule that before an inmate can be entrusted for confinement, there
must be a commitment order by a competent court or authority for the purpose of investigation,
trial and/or service of sentence. The following are recognized authorities to issue commitment
order except:*
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a. Supreme Court
b. Court of Appeals
d. Government Prosecutor
40. The primary goal of this program is to foster personal growth. This is accomplished by re-
shaping an individual’s behavior and attitudes through the inmate’s community working together
to help themselves and each other, restoring self-confidence, and preparing them for their re-
integration into their families and friends as productive members of the community.*
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a. Probation Program
c. Parole Program
d. None of the above
41.The act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. This kind of punishment is
practiced to give harmony to Family, School and Prisoner.*
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a. Mutilation
b. Ostracism
c. Destierro
d. Flogging or Flagellation
42.In the history of capital punishment, what do they call this frame, typically wooden, used for
execution by hanging?*
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a. Wolves
b. Gallows (Scaffold)
c. Punks
d. Jail
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44. In 1936, the City of Manila exchanges its Muntinlupa property with the Bureau of Prisons
originally intended as a site for boys’ training school. Today, the old Bilibid Prison is now being
used as the Manila City Jail, famous as the :*
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d. Muntinlupa Jail
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45. Prisoners should not be given corporal punishment nor confined in dark cells or sweat boxes
as these are:*
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a. Somewhat prohibited
b. Relatively prohibited
c. Absolutely prohibited
d. Fairly prohibited
46. Under the Mandella Rules (UN Standard Minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners ),
which of the following are the two basic principles under rules of general application to
prisoners? 1. There shall be no discrimination on grounds of race, color, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, birth or other status
2. It is necessary to respect the religious belief and moral rule of the group to which the
prisoner belong 3. The treatment of prisoner should emphasize not their
exclusion from the community, but their continuing part in it 4. Unconvict prisoners
are presumed to be innocent and shall be treated as such.*
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a. 2 and 3
b. 4 and 1
c. 1 and 2
d. 3 and 4
Correct answer
c. 1 and 2
47. Jonel Nuesca was convicted and ready to serve his sentence inside the prison. Why was he
photographed at the Directorate for Reception and Diagnostics?*
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a. He is an actor and photogenic
48. Kiko Matos was arrested by the police for theft in the amount of P5,000.00. He was brought
to the police station and an administrative record of the arrest was prepared. He was
fingerprinted, photographed, interrogated and placed in a line-up for identification by witnesses.
What process did he undergo?*
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a. Preliminary hearing
b. Booking
c. Trial
d. Indictment
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c. Keeping or concealing keys or locks of places in the jail where it is off- limits to inmates –
grave offense
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50. Failure to assist in putting out fires inside the jail is a type of offense?*
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a. Grave offense
Correct answer
51. Prisoners are awarded ________ off from their minimum or maximum term for maintaining
good behavior or participating in various types of vocational, educational and treatment
programs.*
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a. Good time
b. Credits – reduction
c. Days off
d. Vacation
Correct answer
b. Credits – reduction
52. Mario is in prison for the past 48 months and has never been involved in any trouble, no
matter how minor. If you were the prison director, how many days for each month would you
approve as Mario’s good conduct time allowance?*
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A. 5 days
B. 8 days
C. 20 days
D. 23 days
Correct answer
D. 23 days
53. It shall exercise supervision and control over all district, city and municipal jails to ensure “a
secured, clean and sanitary and adequately equipped jail for the custody and safekeeping of
city, municipal prisoners, any fugitive from justice or persons detained awaiting for investigation
or trial and/or transfer to the National Penitentiary:*
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a. Bureau of Corrections
b. DILG
d. Provincial Jails
54. The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy
Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design was derived from the word meaning of “pan” and
“opticon”. “Opticon’ means:*
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c. avoid watching
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55. What is referred to as the concept of the “greatest happiness of the greater number”
espoused by Jeremy Bentham?*
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a. Utilitarianism
b. Rehabilitation
c. Reformation
d. Conformance
56.He said the “crime must be considered an injury to society, and the only rational measure of
crime is the extent of injury.” “let the punishment fit the crime”*
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a. Jeremy Bentham
b. Cesare Beccaria
c. James Wilson
d. John Howard
Correct answer
b. Cesare Beccaria
57. A mode of securing the release of any person in custody or detention for the commission of
an offense who is unable to post bail due to abject poverty. A person accused will be released
through reputable person in the Community by order of the Judge is known as?*
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a. Bail
b. Probation
c. Parole
d. Release on recognizance
Correct answer
d. Release on recognizance
58. The Court may grant Probation after conviction of the Trial Court. The Supreme Court
grant Probation in the impeachment case.*
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Correct answer
59. An alternative to incarceration and allows convicted persons to remain at large under
varying degrees of restriction and supervision and certain conditions.*
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A.Probation
B.Conditional Pardon
C.Parole
D.Absolute pardon
Correct answer
A.Probation
60. What is a disposition under which a defendant, after conviction and sentence, is
released subject to conditions imposed by the Court and under the supervision of a Probation
officer?*
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A.Commutation of sentence
B. Parole
C.Probation
D.DReprieve
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B. Make a revenge
62. In Probation, the Court may also require the person placed under it to do the following
except*
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Correct answer
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A. Abstain from drinking liquor
Correct answer
64. What is the effect of Probation to a sentence imposed by the Court to a convicted
individual?*
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Correct answer
65. A person convicted by final judgment of a criminal offense and sentence to imprisonment
of not more thansix years who is allowed by the Court to remain in the community under the
supervision of Parole and Probation Officer and subject to conditions which the Court may
imposed.*
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B. Probationer
66. He conducts PSI, FBCI, GCI and PCI and supervises a person placed under probation?*
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B. Probationer
C. Parole Officer
D. Probation Officer
67. What is the quantum of evidence required to prove a violation of probation’s conditions?*
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A. Probable cause
B. Preponderance of evidence
D. Substantial evidence
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68. As one of the conditions of Probation, how many times in a month shall the probationer
report to theprobation officer?*
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A. Once
B. At least twice
D. Four times
Correct answer
A. Once
69. Who investigates for the Court referral “Order to Investigate” as prescribed in
Presidential Decree 968?*
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A. Jail Officer
B. Parole Officer
C. Probation Officer
D. Correction Officer
Correct answer
D. Correction Officer
70. A document serves as a basis for Court’s decision to grant or deny the application for
probation.*
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A. Penalty
B. Privilege
C. Punishment
D. Right
72. If Mr. Aljur Abrenica violated sec. 29, of PD 968. Violation of Confidential Nature of
Probation Records, with a penalty of imprisonment ranging from six months and one day to six
years and a fine ranging from hundred to six thousand pesos shall be imposed upon any person
who violates Section 17 hereof. Is he qualified for Probation?*
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A. Yes
B. No
C. Maybe
D. Partially true
Correct answer
B. No
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A. Post-Sentence Investigation Report
D. All of these
Correct answer
D. All of these
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A. Probation Administrator
Correct answer
75. Where may a convicted offender not disqualified by law apply for probation?*
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A. Court of Appeals
C. Sandiganbayan
D. Supreme Court
Correct answer
76. What was the occupation of the Father of Probation who interceded with the court to
suspend the sentenceof youthful offenders and alcoholics and placed them in his charge?*
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A. Carpenter
B. Mason
C. Shoemaker
D. Tailor
77. Who was the first probation officer employed on October 21, 1878 by the government of the
United States based on the passage of law in 1887 providing for the appointment of a Probation
Officer for the City of Boston?*
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A. Edward H. Savage
B. Richard McSweeney
C. Frederick Rainier
D. Renald Cabe
Correct answer
A. Edward H. Savage
78. Mr. Malibog was convicted to the crime of Rape then apply for Probation. As a Judge will
you grant Probation?
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A. Yes. Because having sexual force to other is natural, and also under the theory of Abraham
Maslow that sex is a vital need.
B. No. Because the sec. 8 (c), PD 968. Probation will depreciate the seriousness of the offense
committed.”
C. Yes. Because Mr. Chaps has good faith to marry the rape victim.
79. In the Philippines may the Offended party grant Pardon as a general rule?
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A. Yes
B. No
C. False
D. True
Correct answer
D. True
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A. John Augustus
C. Frederick Rainier
D. Alexander Maconochie
81. Which of the following court decisions led to the passing of the National Probation Act of
1925*
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A. Killets Decision
Correct answer
A. Killets Decision
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A. Shall be appealable
C. Cannot be revoked
Correct answer
83. The Probationer and his Probation program is under the control of -*
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A. Probation officer
D. Trial Court
Correct answer
D. Trial Court
84. He is tasked to administer the Parole and Probation System and exercise general
supervision overall Pardonees, Parolees and Probationers in the country.*
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85. Which of the following is not an administrative function exercised by the Executive Branch of
thegovernment.*
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A. Probation
B. Pardon
C. Reprieve
D. Amnesty
86. An alternative granted after a convicted person served a part of his sentence and is
allowed to complete asentence at large, subject to restrictions and supervision.*
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A. Probation
B. Shock imprisonment
C. Parole
D. Split sentencing
Correct answer
C. Parole
87. The probation order is read before the petitioners and the probation officer.*
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A. In probation office
C. In confidence
D. In open court
Correct answer
D. In open court
88. Mr. Gerald Anderson, was sentenced in 2003 to a minimum prison term of three years
and one day. He applied for probation and he was granted probation in 2008. He was included
in a robbery and with a prison term of less than three years. If he applied for probation is he
qualified?*
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C. Yes. There is five years gap between his second offense and the first offense.
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Correct answer
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C. 5 Maximum client
D. 50 caseloads
Correct answer
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C. 5 Maximum client
D. 50 caseloads
Correct answer
C. 5 Maximum client
92. The Probation and Parole Week is celebrated every when pursuant to Proclamation No.
405?*
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A. Two years
B. Four years
C. Six Years
D. Eight years
94. It refers to a suspension of sentence after which the convicted of the law and subject to
his good behaviorand positive reaction to rehabilitation program.*
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A. Parole
B. Act 4221
C. Pardon
D. Amnesty
Correct answer
B. Act 4221
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A. Amnesty
B. Commutation of sentence
C. Pardon
D. Probation
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A. Amnesty
B. Commutation of sentence
C. Parole
D. Probation
Correct answer
D. Probation
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A. House Speaker
C. Secretary of Justice
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98. The following are the Person in Authority pursuant to sec. 4, RA 10707. Except.*
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Correct answer
99. Who among the following convicted drug pushers may place under probation?*
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E. None
Correct answer
E. None
100. Mr. Jayzam Manabat was convicted of a crime that carries a penalty of eight years and one
day. As a Probation Officer will you recommend him for Probation?*
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