Guess the Crime Quiz

1. Without authorization, a person signs someone else’s name on a check and intends to pass it as genuine. Which offense specifically concerns falsely making or altering a writing with intent to defraud?

2. A promoter knowingly invents a nonexistent investment and uses false claims to persuade people to send money. Which allegation most directly matches obtaining money through intentional deception?

3. A shopper deliberately slips store headphones into a coat and leaves without paying. No force, threat, or unlawful entry is involved. Which allegation best matches the conduct?

4. Two people agree to burglarize a warehouse, obtain tools, and drive to the site. Which offense most directly concerns their criminal agreement and an act taken to advance it?

5. While under oath in court, a witness knowingly makes a materially false statement. Which offense specifically concerns that false sworn testimony?

6. After a burglary is complete, a friend learns what happened and knowingly hides the burglar to help avoid arrest. Which role best describes the friend’s conduct?

7. During an argument, one person intentionally swings a fist at another. The intended target sees the swing and reasonably fears an immediate hit, but the punch misses. Under the traditional assault–battery distinction, which offense best fits?

8. Intent on burning a rival’s car, a person pours gasoline over it and raises a lighter but is stopped before igniting the fuel. Which inchoate offense best matches the intent plus substantial step?

9. A contractor offers a public official money in exchange for a favorable permit decision. Which offense most directly matches the corrupt exchange being proposed?

10. One person intentionally shoves another during a dispute, causing unwanted physical contact but no injury. Under the traditional assault–battery distinction, what best matches the completed contact?

11. Someone unlawfully enters a closed pharmacy intending to steal medicine but is arrested before taking anything. Under the conventional definition, which offense was completed by the entry with criminal intent?

12. Someone takes a parked car without permission solely to drive around for the evening and intends to return it that night. Using the conventional distinction based on the lack of intent to keep it permanently, which allegation fits best?

13. A club treasurer is lawfully entrusted with club funds but secretly transfers some of the money into a personal account. Which offense best fits this misuse of entrusted property?

14. A reseller buys several laptops while knowing they were stolen and plans to sell them for profit. Which offense most directly concerns knowingly taking possession of the stolen goods?

15. A person deliberately sets another person’s house on fire to damage it. Which classic property offense specifically centers on malicious burning?

16. On a sidewalk, a person points a knife at someone and demands that person’s phone immediately. Which offense most directly combines taking property with force or an immediate threat?