Week 3 - Apply Assignment
Involuntary Intoxication - correct answer ✔✔Elizabeth is out with her friends at a bar one night. The bartender notices someone slip a pill into Elizabeth's drink. If Elizabeth commits a crime later that night, the bartender can best testify on her behalf. Which defense most likely applies to this situation? (Whether or not the defense will work is not relevant.)
INCORRECT: Derek assumed the risk of a bear attack by joining the tour group, so he cannot hold the tour company liable. - correct answer ✔✔While on a hike with a tour group in the mountains, Derek gets
mauled by a bear. No previous reports of bears in the area had been made. Derek wants to hold the tour company liable for his injury. Which of the following is most likely true?
Jack and Alice can make a tort claim against Jennifer for public revelation of private facts. - correct answer ✔✔Jennifer took a video recording of Jack and Alice fighting in an alley. Jack and Alice disclose multiple private facts about each other through the course of the argument. Jennifer posts the fight on the internet. Which of the following is true?
Misdemeanor - correct answer ✔✔What type of crime is petty theft?
All of the above - correct answer ✔✔Amanda is babysitting when her charge Tomas leaps off a couch onto a glass table and breaks it, leaving him with many cuts. To show that Amanda was negligent, Tomas's parents must show that:
INCORRECT: Agency is terminated by law - correct answer ✔✔Mike is an agent making purchasing orders
for Tami. Tami passes away before the agency contract is voluntarily ended. Mike has already done most of the work Tami assigned.
What is the result related to the status of the agency?
Enforceable via employee agent - correct answer ✔✔Megan's boss is out of town. While she is gone, the
company receives a critical tax bill from the state that must be paid immediately. Megan does not have authority to pay bills, but arranges for the company to pay the bill anyway. Which response best fits the situation - is the payment of the bill enforceable? Guilty of hostile work environment sexual harassment - correct answer ✔✔Which statement matches the following scenario?
Joy is a supervisor over Elias. She repeatedly solicits sexual behavior from Elias and does other inappropriate actions that a reasonable person would find offensive. Elias has not solicited the behavior and finds it unwelcome. Joy never imposes a tangible job action against Elias.
Employer may legally discriminate based on number of employees - correct answer ✔✔Which statement
corresponds to this specific situation?
Rowan owns a computer programming business with 15 employees. He is hiring a new employee, and he
turns down a 45-year-old man because he is "too old to keep up with the rest of the group."
Tiana may not discriminate, and no qualifier or condition will enable her to discriminate - correct answer ✔✔Tiana runs an employment agency distributing work assignments to several dozen workers who then
work for whatever employer they are assigned to. Which true statement best suits this situation? ("Discriminate" in this context means to make an employment decision about employees based on the characteristics described in the text.)
Agency is terminated by fulfillment - correct answer ✔✔Kenzie is a broker agent hired to make a deal for
the purchase of an office building. Kenzie sells the building.
What is the result related to the status of the agency?
Phineas has breached more than one of his duties. - correct answer ✔✔Phineas is an agent assigned to scout out professional players for a football team. One player he brings in has a drug problem, which Phineas knows about but does not disclose to the hiring team. If the player is selected, which of the following is true?
Felipe can be deported, and the employer can be punished. - correct answer ✔✔Felipe is an illegal immigrant seeking work in the U.S. He is hired by a small factory doing manual labor. When it is discovered that Felipe is an illegal immigrant:
INCORRECT: If the principal disavows the contract Marley made, it still must pay for the work. - correct answer ✔✔Marley goes outside the duties of her agency in negotiating a business contract between her principal and a customer. Which of the following is true?
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