Use This Fact Situation to Answer the Related Questions That

Use this fact situation to answer the related questions that follow. Mary is employed in administration at York University,where she is paid $3500.00 a month.The administrative staff have gone on strike and,to that end,have set up a picket line to prevent employees from going into the university's administration building.Mary wants no part of the strike,so she decides that she will cross the picket line.As she does this,an employee named Ralph says,"Unless you want a black eye,lady,you better not cross the picket line." John,another employee,pushes Mary back.Unknown to Mary,there is a hole in the pavement that the university has been aware of for quite some time,but has done nothing about,and as Mary falls back,her shoe catches in the hole and she falls down,breaking her leg and spraining her right arm.
Ralph's statement to Mary is

A) the tort of negligence.
B) the tort of assault.
C) the tort of injurious falsehood.
D) the tort of battery.
E) the tort of trespass.