Deck 3: Criminal Law

Question 1

The three inchoate offences in the Criminal Code are:

A) attempt, conspiracy, or counselling
B) procuring, soliciting, or inciting.
C) attempt, conspiracy, or inciting.
D) aid, abet, or counsel.
E) Conspiracy, soliciting, or procuring.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The minimum number of people who can be charged with conspiracy in Canada is

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The mens rea elements of a criminal offence are considered to be ____________________ if they are based on a determination of whether a reasonable person in the same circumstances would have seen the risks

A) Consequences
B) Misdemeanours
C) Objective
D) Subjective

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that extreme drunkenness could be used as a defence

A) only for a provincial offence.
B) only for crime which require specific intent
C) for all crimes if it can be proven to be extreme.
D) for sexual assault against women

Question 5

Failure to come to the rescue of someone in serious danger is a crime in Canada

A) under all circumstances
B) only when the person in danger communicates his/her plight to you
C) only when there is a pre-existing duty to act, such as a parent failing to come to the rescue of his/her small child
D) only when there is a pre-existing duty to act and an emergency call to officials (like 911) is not available.

Question 6

Guardians are under a legal duty to provide the necessities of life for a child under the age of sixteen.Failure to provide such necessities falls into the legal category of

A) Wilful blindness
B) Automatism
C) Conspiracy
D) Omission

Question 7

The only time the courts do not require proof of any consequences is in the case of

A) Ignorance of the law
B) An Omission
C) Contempt of court
D) Perjury

Question 8

If you do not look at the evidence presented to you and question the facts,you are committing the mental element of

A) Negligence
B) Mistake of fact
C) Intention
D) Wilful blindness

Question 9

All of the following crimes require proof of objective mens rea except one. Which is the exception?

A) murder
B) dangerous driving
C) assault causing bodily harm
D) criminal negligence causing death or bodily harm

Question 10

Persons whose actions are proved to be involuntary have successfully raised the defence of:

A) self defence
B) penal negligence
C) automatism
D) mistake of fact

Question 11

Beaver sold an undercover police officer heroin.Beaver told the police he truly believed it was not heroin but only milk sugar.It turned out to be heroin,but Beaver was found not guilty when he used a defence of:

A) mistake of fact
B) entrapment
C) wilful blindness
D) duress

Question 12

The federal government has the exclusive jurisdiction to enact laws in one of the following areas. Which is it?

A) health
B) hunting and fishing
C) controlled drugs and substances
D) education

Question 13

"A body of legislation that specifies the procedures to be followed in the prosecution of a criminal case" is the definition for

A) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
B) Criminal procedure
C) Crime
D) Common law

Question 14

According to the text,the current test for provocation as a defence against criminal charges is

A) an objective test
B) a subjective test
C) somewhere between an objective and subjective test
D) objective for indictable offences, subjective for summary offences

Question 15

Duress is a defence found in:

A) Statutory rule
B) Legislative rule
C) Common law rule
D) The Criminal Code

Question 16

If you have committed a crime and have used a defence of duress,you were:

A) threatened with death or grievous bodily harm.
B) forced to act based on forces of nature or emergency.
C) not in control of your mental state
D) extremely provoked into retaliation and lost self control

Question 17

Which of the countries below have ratified the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court?

A) Canada
B) The United States
C) England
D) France

Question 18

A person breaking into a warehouse to obtain lifesaving equipment for use in an emergency would be

A) convicted of the crime of break and enter
B) acquitted on the grounds of compulsion
C) acquitted on the grounds of necessity
D) acquitted on the grounds of self defence

Question 19

Which of the following is a source of Canadian criminal law?

A) judicial decisions interpreting the common law
B) judicial decisions interpreting legislation
C) legislation
D) all of the above