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3 Torts Online Quiz Questions

Use this free practice quiz with 20 questions to review 3 Torts, test your knowledge, and prepare for your next test or exam.

20 questions

True or false

1 point

A customer alleges negligence after being injured by a shop’s failure to take reasonable precautions. A typical negligence claim requires proof of duty, breach, factual cause, proximate cause, and damages.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

A person deliberately pulls a chair away just before someone sits, causing the person to fall and make harmful contact with the floor. Which statement best describes the possible battery claim?

A
Battery cannot apply unless the person intended to hurt the other person.
B
Battery may apply if the person intentionally caused the required contact, even without intending injury.
C
Assault applies only if the other person suffered physical injury.
D
Trespass to land applies because moving the chair altered the other person’s property.

Written response

1 point

A business shows that a competitor’s ongoing conduct is causing harm that money alone cannot adequately address. What equitable remedy may a court issue to stop or prevent the conduct?

Fill in the blank

1 point

A product leaves the seller’s control in a condition that departs from its intended design. This is a .

Choose one

1 point

A shop leaves a spill in a busy aisle without warning, and a customer slips and breaks an arm. If the shop’s failure to take precautions was unreasonable, which negligence element asks whether this kind of injury was sufficiently within the scope of the risks that made the conduct negligent?

A
Duty, because the shop owed the customer reasonable care.
B
Factual cause, because the injury would not have occurred but for the spill.
C
Proximate cause, because the injury may fall within the scope of risks created by the breach.
D
Damages, because the customer’s injury is legally recognized harm.

Choose all

1 point

Which statements accurately describe strict liability? Select all that apply.

A
A defendant may face strict liability even after taking reasonable care.
B
Strict liability always applies whenever a plaintiff suffers an injury.
C
The plaintiff still must establish relevant elements such as causation and legally recognized harm.
D
Liability is limited to risks that make the activity or product subject to the strict-liability rule.
E
The plaintiff never needs to show that the defendant’s conduct or product caused the harm.

True or false

1 point

A person intentionally enters land without permission, believing it belongs to someone else. That mistaken belief about ownership does not, by itself, defeat a trespass-to-land claim.

A
True
B
False

Written response

1 point

A court uses a statute’s standard of care in a negligence case because the statute protects the injured person’s class and addresses the type of harm suffered. What doctrine is this?

Fill in the blank

1 point

For false imprisonment, a person must be of the confinement or be harmed by it.

Choose one

1 point

A jury finds that both a defendant and an injured plaintiff contributed to an accident. What is the general effect of comparative fault in most states?

A
The plaintiff’s negligence automatically bars recovery in every state.
B
The plaintiff’s share of fault may reduce recovery in most states.
C
The defendant is liable for every injury regardless of the plaintiff’s conduct.
D
Comparative fault removes the need to prove causation.

Choose all

1 point

Which listed features are components of a typical fraudulent-misrepresentation claim? Select all that apply.

A
The statement is a knowingly or recklessly false statement of material fact.
B
The plaintiff relied on the statement even though the reliance was unreasonable.
C
The statement was intended to induce the plaintiff’s reliance.
D
Any financial loss, without an independent legal wrong, establishes fraudulent misrepresentation.
E
The plaintiff reasonably relied on the statement and suffered a resulting loss.

Open ended

1 point

A company carefully conducts an activity that a court determines is abnormally dangerous. A nearby resident is injured by a risk characteristic of that activity. Explain whether strict liability may apply, what the resident must still prove, and why the company’s careful precautions may not resolve the claim.

Choose one

1 point

A plaintiff cannot identify the specific negligent act that caused an accident. Which statement best describes when res ipsa loquitur may help?

A
It automatically establishes liability whenever an accident causes an injury.
B
It applies whenever a defendant denies having acted negligently.
C
It may allow an inference of negligence when the accident ordinarily would not happen without negligence and the evidence supports attributing it to the defendant.
D
It replaces the need to prove that the accident caused legally recognized harm.

Choose one

1 point

During an argument, Lee deliberately shoves Pat’s shoulder without consent. Lee says the shove was meant as a joke and that Lee did not intend to injure Pat. Which statement best describes whether Lee may be liable for battery?

A
Battery requires proof that the defendant intended to injure the other person.
B
Battery may apply if the defendant intentionally caused harmful or offensive contact without consent, even without intending injury.
C
Battery requires that the contact cause substantial financial loss.
D
Battery applies only when the defendant directly touches the other person with a hand.

Choose one

1 point

Morgan deliberately walks onto a neighboring parcel, mistakenly believing it is part of Morgan’s own property. Morgan has no permission or other legal privilege to enter. Which statement is most accurate?

A
The deliberate entry may constitute trespass even if Morgan reasonably—but mistakenly—believed the land was Morgan’s.
B
There can be no trespass unless Morgan knew the land belonged to another person.
C
Trespass requires proof that Morgan intended to damage the land.
D
Trespass requires that the landowner suffer bodily injury.

Choose one

1 point

Jordan raises a fist to strike Riley, but Riley is looking away and does not see or otherwise perceive the threat. Jordan does not make contact. Which fact most directly prevents this from meeting the stated definition of assault?

A
The raised fist automatically constitutes assault, whether or not Riley notices it.
B
Assault requires that Riley suffer physical injury from the threatened contact.
C
Riley’s lack of awareness means the act does not satisfy assault’s requirement that the person anticipate imminent contact.
D
Assault applies only if the threatened contact actually occurs.

Choose one

1 point

A store leaves a spill on a busy aisle without warning. A customer slips on it and breaks an arm. Assuming the store had a duty and failed to take reasonable precautions, which negligence principle best explains why the broken arm may be sufficiently connected to the breach?

A
It establishes duty because the store invited customers inside.
B
It supports proximate cause because a customer’s fall and resulting injury are within the foreseeable risks of leaving a spill on a busy aisle.
C
It establishes breach only if the store intended for a customer to fall.
D
It eliminates the need to prove that the spill caused the customer’s injury.

True or false

1 point

A plaintiff who proves compensatory damages is automatically entitled to punitive damages as well. True or false?

A
True
B
False

Written response

1 point

A business seeks a court order to stop a competitor’s ongoing conduct because money alone would not adequately address the harm. What remedy is the business seeking?

Written response

1 point

What doctrine may allow an inference of negligence when an accident ordinarily would not happen without negligence and the evidence supports attributing it to the defendant?