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CHAPTER 6

Review Questions

Multiple Choice
Direction: Read the statement or question very carefully.
Encircle the letter of your answer.

1. They defined what is socially approved or disapproved, but


they do not reflect a sense of moral obligation.
ⓐ. folkways c. mores
b. norms d. laws

2. They indicate societal expectations of what is right or


normal, or what is wrong and abnormal.
a. laws ⓒ. norms
b. mores d. folkways

3. They are defined as formal social control involving the use


of rules or norms that are enacted, interpreted, and enforced by
the political state or community.
a. norms c. folkways
ⓑ. laws d. mores

4. It is a branch or division of law which defines crimes,


treats of their nature and provides for their punishment.
a. Civil Law c. Political Law
ⓑ. Criminal Law d. All of these

5. This book contains the Philippine Criminal Law. Likewise, it


is embodied in different special laws and decrees which are
penal in nature.
a. Criminal Code ⓒ. The Revised Penal Code
b. Penal Code d. Amended Penal Code

6. Criminal law functions to control, restrain, and direct human


behavior through its sanctioning power. This describes what goal
of criminal law?
a. punishing wrongdoing
b. enforcing social control
c. discouraging revenge
ⓓ. deterring criminal behavior

7. The deterrent power of criminal law is to sanction offenders.


What goal of criminal law is this?
a. enforcing social control
b. deterring criminal behavior
ⓒ. punishing wrongdoing
d. discouraging revenge

8. It refers to the scope of criminal law.


ⓐ. specificity
b. regularity
c. penal sanction
d. politicality

9. It refers to the legitimate source of criminal law.


ⓐ. politicality c. specificity
b. penal sanction d. uniformity

10. This was based on tradition that God entered into a covenant
with the tribes of Israel. In return for God’s care and
protection, they agreed to obey His law.
a. The Common Law
ⓑ. The Mosaic Code
c. The Code of Hammurabi
d. The Code of Kalantiaw

11. It is imposed a system of crime and punishment based on


physical retaliation “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
ⓐ. The Code of Hammurabi
b. The Roman Law
c. The Common Law
d. The Mosaic Code

12. This penal code is believed to be the earliest punishment


system in the Philippines.
ⓐ. The Common Law
b. The Mosaic Code
c. The Code of Kalantiaw
d. The Twelve Tables

13. The following are sources of Philippine Criminal Law,


except:
a. The Revised Penal Code
b. special laws
c. court decisions
d. presidential decrees
14. It means that a penal law cannot make an act punishable in a
manner in which the act was not punishable at the same time of
its commission.
a. Criminal law is general in application.
b. Criminal law is territorial in character.
ⓒ. Criminal law is prospective.
d. There must be a penal sanction or punishment.

15. What is the highest penalty possible at present under the


Revised Penal Code?
ⓐ. reclusion perpetua c. reclusion temporal
b. death penalty d. destierro

16. This legal maxim means, “There is no crime when there is no


law punishing the same.”
ⓐ. Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege
b. Doctrine of Pro Reo
c. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
d. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus

17. “An act done by me against my will is not my act.”


a. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
ⓑ. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus
c. Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege
d. Doctrine of Pro Reo

18. “The act cannot be criminal where the mind is not criminal.”
a. Doctrine of Pro Reo
b. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus
ⓒ. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
d. Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege

19. According to this theory, crime is essentially a social or


natural phenomenon that cannot be treated and checked by mere
application of abstract principles of law, but through personal
and individual investigation conducted by psychiatrists and
social scientist.
a. Classical Theory c. Ecletic Theory
b. Neoclassical Theory ⓓ. Positivist Theory

20. The basis of criminal liability is human free will and the
purpose of penalty is retribution. This is characteristics of
what theory?
a. Positivist Theory c. Neoclassical Theory
ⓑ. Classical Theory d. Eclectic Theory

21. A crime punished under a special law is called


________________.
a. minor infraction c. misdemeanor
ⓑ. statutory offense d. felony

22. It means failure to perform a positive duty which one is


bound to do.
ⓐ. omission c. overt act
b. act d. external act

23. Who among the following is exempt from criminal liability?


a. a person under nine years of age
b. an insane person
c. a person who acts under the compulsion of irresistible
force
ⓓ. all of the foregoing

24. The following are elements of felony, except:


a. freedom ⓒ. will
b. intelligence d. intent

25. Who are criminally liable for grave and less grave felonies?
a. principals c. accessories
b. accomplices ⓓ. all of the foregoing

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