Business Law Chapter 3

A crime is an offense against the public good.

• true

• false

Motive plays no part in proving criminal liability.

• true

• false

A person claiming self-defense must retreat before resorting to force.

• true

• false

Any killing that takes place during a felony is murder.

• true

• false

Robbery is the wrongful and violent taking of personal property.

• true

• false

The unlawful killing of one human being by another, without malice or aforethought, is

• justifiable homicide

• first-degree murder

• second-degree murder

• manslaughter

In a criminal proceeding, the government is referred to as the

• defendant

• offender

• plaintiff

• protagonist

If a law enforcement officer induces a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime, the accused may claim

• self-defense

• entrapment

• endangerment

• insanity

Threatening a person at gunpoint is called

• kidnapping

• aggravated assault

• torture

• larceny by false pretenses

The wrongful taking of another's property by a person who has been entrusted with that property is

• extortion

• robbery

• larceny

• embezzlement