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PSOCC EXAM IN CRIMINAL LAW 1

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Select the correct/best answer from the choices given and write
the letter of your answer in the space before each item. (1 point each)

_____ 1) These are laws defining and punishing crimes not punishable under the
Revised Penal Code.
A. Constitutional laws B. Special laws
C. Moral laws D. Administrative laws
_____ 2) The following are exempt from the operation of our criminal laws, except:
A. ambassadors B. consul general
C. minister resident D. charges d‘ affaires.
_____ 3) The following felonies do not admit of a frustrated stage, except:
A. rape B. physical injuries C. adultery D. theft
_____ 4) The following are the classifications of felonies according to gravity, except:
A. grave felonies B. light felonies
C. slight felonies D. less grave felonies
_____ 5) It is one of the basic characteristics of criminal laws.
A. Perspective B. Prospective
C. Retroactive D. Retrospective
_____ 6) It is a characteristic of criminal laws that requires that they be applied to all
persons who live or sojourn in the Philippine territory.
A. Generality B. Territoriality
C. Generally D. Prospectivity
_____ 7) A proposal to commit the following felonies is punishable, except:
A. treason B. rebellion C. insurrection D. sedition E. coup d ‘etat
_____ 8) It is a crime in wherein all the elements necessary in its accomplishment are
present.
A. Attempted felony B. Frustrated felony
C. Consumated felony D. Impossible crime
_____ 9) The felony wherein the imposable penalty is correctional in character.
A. light felony B. grave felony
C. slight felony D. less grave felony
_____ 10) Felonies are punished by imprisonment and fine. It the felony is punishable
by imprisonment, the same are divide into how many periods?
A. one B. two C. three D. four
_____ 11) In exempting circumstances, homicidal tendency is legally known as.
A. kleptomania B. epilepsy
C. dementia praecox D. malignant malaria
_____12) These are causes naturally producing in a person powerful excitement
wherein he loses his reason and self control.
A. anger B. unlawful aggression
C. provocation D. passion and obfuscation
_____ 13) Which among the following is not a public authority?
A. Mayor B. Vice-Governor C. Chief of Police D. Bgy. Chairman
_____ 14) Ignominy is appreciated in the crimes of Rape, cruelty is appreciated in what
crime?
A. physical injuries B. rebellion
C. murder D. abduction
_____15) In evident premeditation there in deliberated planning. In alevosia, there is
__________.
A. superior strength B. aid of armed men
C. impunity D. treachery
_____16) In crimes committed with the aggravating circumstance in consideration of a
price, reward, or promise, how many principals will be criminally liable?
A. one B. two
C. three D. four
_____17) Meaning of the phrase “condition sine-quanon”.
A.dispensable B. immaterial
C. indispensable D. disposable
_____ 18) The age of mitigated responsibility.
A. below 9 B. 15 C. 50 D. 71
_____ 19) A place exclusively used for rest and comfort.
A. motel B. dwelling
C. lodging house D. hotel
_____20) Legal term for an uninhabited place.
A. evident premeditation B. treachery
C. nocturnity D. solitude
_____21) Something that happened outside the sway of men and clearly unforseenable.
A. insuperable cause B. culpable felonies
C. accident D. reckless imprudence
_____22) The number one absolutory cause that exempts a person from liability.
A. intoxication B. entrapment
C. instigation D. error in personae
_____ 23) Most common means employed by a criminal to weaken the defense of the
would be victim.
A. friendliness B. poison
C. victim was sleeping D.intoxication
_____ 24) It is the mental capacity of a person to distinguish right from wrong.
A. discernment B. intelligence
C. freedom D. education
_____ 25) Age of total criminal irresponsibility.
A. 14 B. 16 C. 18 D. 21

II. ESSAY. Answer the following briefly but completely. Observe correct spelling,
grammar and spelling. (25 points)

1) While A was driving his car along Harrison Road, Baguio City, he saw B, a man
with whom A had a fight a few days past. While B was crossing the street, A, with
intent to kill, sped up his car and hit B, who sustained a fatal wound as a result,
but due to immediate medical attendance, B survived. After hitting B, A rushed
away from the scene of the crime, but unfortunately for him, while escaping, A’s
car hit C, an innocent pedestrian, who was crossing the road. C sustained
physical injuries but survived.

a. In the problem above, what kind/s of felony/felonies (according to how

it/they is/are committed) did A commit? Explain briefly. (10 points)

b. In the problem above, what stage/s of execution is/are the crime/s

committed by A? Explain briefly. (5 points)

2) A, B, and C agreed and decided to kill D. A served as the driver for the get-away
car, B served as a lookout, and C did the actual shooting of D. After C shot D, he
raped D´s wife without the knowledge of A and B before they all fled from the
crime scene. Will A, B, and C be liable for the murder of D and the rape of D´s
wife? Fully explain your answer. (10 points)
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