The Penal Code, 1860 Model Test 21 (English)

Time Allowed30 Minutes

Total Questions50 MCQs

Total Marks50 Marks

Negative Marking-0.25 Marks

Qualifying Mark50% Pass

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Penal Code Model Test 21 (English)

The Penal Code, 1860

Questions: 50
Full Marks: 50
Time: 30 Minutes

1 / 50

Section 339 of the Penal Code defines:

A) Wrongful confinement

B) Kidnapping

C) Abduction

D) Wrongful restraint

2 / 50

Chapter 20 of the Penal Code provides for offences relating to:

A) Property

B) Defamation

C) Religion

D) Marriage

3 / 50

The limits of Bangladesh’s Territorial Waters are described under which Act?

A) The Bangladesh Penal Code, 1860

B) The Constitution of Bangladesh

C) The Sea Customs Act, 1878

D) Territorial waters, Continental shelf, Exclusive economic zone and other Maritime zones Act, 1976

4 / 50

Personating a public servant is punishable under which section?

A) Section 188

B) Section 170

C) Section 166

D) Section 171

5 / 50

Which Article of the Constitution of Bangladesh mandates that lands/minerals underlying the ocean within territorial waters vest in the Union?

A) Article 12

B) Article 1

C) Article 297

D) Article 300

6 / 50

Which section defines "Culpable Homicide"?

A) Section 304

B) Section 300

C) Section 299

D) Section 298

7 / 50

The statutory definition of the offence of perjury in Bangladesh is given under:

A) Section 191 PENAL CODE

B) Section 193 PENAL CODE

C) Section 194 PENAL CODE

D) Section 192 PENAL CODE

8 / 50

What is the punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder?

A) Imprisonment for 5 years

B) Imprisonment for life or imprisonment for 10 years

C) Imprisonment for 7 years

D) Death or life imprisonment

9 / 50

According to Section 349 of the Penal Code, the use of force caused to property without affecting a human being is:

A) Considered criminal force

B) Not considered "use of force"

C) Considered assault

D) Considered "use of force"

10 / 50

Section 153B of the Bangladesh Penal Code deals with an offence regarding:

A) Affray

B) Imputation or assertions prejudicial to national integration

C) Blasphemy

D) Rioting

11 / 50

Criminal force in the Bangladesh Penal Code is equivalent to what concept in English law?

A) Trespass

B) Manslaughter

C) Battery

D) Assault

12 / 50

Which statement differentiates Section 149 and Section 34 of the Penal Code?

A) Section 149 creates a specific offence; Section 34 is a rule of evidence.

B) Both create specific offences.

C) Both are rules of evidence.

D) Section 149 is a rule of evidence; Section 34 creates a specific offence.

13 / 50

Section 300 of the Penal Code defines:

A) Dowry Death

B) Culpable Homicide

C) Murder

D) Attempt to Murder

14 / 50

Section 3 of the Territorial waters, Continental shelf... Act, 1976 describes:

A) The limits of Bangladesh's Territorial Waters

B) The definition of a ship

C) Piracy laws

D) Fishing limits

15 / 50

The punishment for murder is prescribed in:

A) Section 300

B) Section 301

C) Section 302

D) Section 304

16 / 50

Actus Reus includes:

A) Negative acts only

B) Mental thoughts only

C) Both positive and negative acts

D) Positive acts only

17 / 50

Culpable homicide amounts to murder if the offender knows their act is:

A) Somewhat dangerous

B) Against public policy

C) So imminently dangerous that it must in all probability cause death

D) Likely to cause minor injury

18 / 50

The IT (Amendment) Act, 2008 amended which section of the Penal Code?

A) Section 466

B) Section 464

C) Section 463

D) Section 465

19 / 50

What is the maximum imprisonment for the offence of molestation under the Penal Code, as per the text provided?

A) Five years

B) Two years

C) Three years

D) One year

20 / 50

Who is considered the root of Bangladesh Criminal Jurisprudence?

A) Ashoka

B) Kautilya

C) Lord Macaulay

D) Manu

21 / 50

Which of the following statements is accurate?

A) Culpable homicide requires premeditation, murder does not.

B) Every culpable homicide is murder.

C) Culpable homicide and murder are mutually exclusive.

D) Every murder is culpable homicide, but every culpable homicide is not murder.

22 / 50

When does the right to private defence commence?

A) When the attacker is arrested

B) As soon as a reasonable apprehension of danger to the body arises

C) When actual harm is inflicted

D) When a verbal threat is made from a distance

23 / 50

The primary aim of Criminal Law is:

A) Restitution

B) Rehabilitation

C) Mediation

D) Punishment

24 / 50

In the offence of extortion, the threat or fear (trust) may be used against:

A) The victim only

B) Any one

C) The victim's relatives only

D) Public servants only

25 / 50

On what date did the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 come into force?

A) 27.10.2008

B) 27.10.2009

C) 01.01.2009

D) 31.12.2008

26 / 50

Culpable homicide does NOT amount to murder if committed:

A) For financial gain

B) In a sudden fight in the heat of passion

C) Without provocation

D) With premeditation

27 / 50

Causing the death of a child in the mother's womb is:

A) Infanticide

B) Murder

C) Culpable homicide

D) Not homicide under the Penal Code

28 / 50

A person entrusted with property commits criminal breach of trust if he:

A) Reports it stolen

B) Dishonestly misappropriates the property to his own use

C) Keeps it safely in a bank

D) Loses it accidentally

29 / 50

The Bangladesh Penal Code punishes:

A) Accidental acts

B) Involuntary acts

C) Voluntary acts

D) Acts of God

30 / 50

Diplomatic agents are entitled to immunity against criminal prosecutions by virtue of:

A) The Vienna Convention

B) The Penal Code

C) The UN Charter

D) The Bangladesh Constitution

31 / 50

Things of value underlying the ocean within Bangladesh's exclusive economic zone are held for the purposes of:

A) The State Governments

B) Local Panchayats

C) The Union

D) Private Corporations

32 / 50

The quote stating that a statute may make an act criminal "whether there has been any intention to break the law... or not" is from:

A) Barendra Kumar Ghosh v. King Emperor

B) R. v. Prince

C) K.M. Nanavati v. State

D) R. v. Tolson

33 / 50

The amendment to Section 464 of the Penal Code substituted the term "electronic signature" with:

A) E-signature

B) Digital signature

C) Cyber signature

D) Encrypted signature

34 / 50

Fabricating false evidence is defined under:

A) Section 193 PENAL CODE

B) Section 192 PENAL CODE

C) Section 191 PENAL CODE

D) Section 190 PENAL CODE

35 / 50

If a person kills another in the exercise of the right of private defence in good faith, the act is:

A) Justifiable homicide with no punishment

B) Culpable homicide not amounting to murder

C) Accident

D) Murder

36 / 50

The offence of extortion can be committed against:

A) Valuable security

B) All of the above

C) Immovable property

D) Movable property

37 / 50

Making preparation to wage war against the Government of Bangladesh is:

A) Not an offence until the war begins

B) Protected under free speech

C) Punishable

D) A civil wrong

38 / 50

The two essential constituents of a crime are:

A) Motive and Actus reus

B) Intention and Execution

C) Actus reus and Mens rea

D) Mens rea and Preparation

39 / 50

The subject matter of theft must be:

A) Immovable property

B) Movable property only

C) Any type of property

D) Intellectual property

40 / 50

According to the Vienna Convention, who holds immunity against criminal prosecutions?

A) UN representatives

B) High commissioners

C) Ambassadors

D) All of the above

41 / 50

Preparation to commit which of the following offences is explicitly punishable?

A) Dacoity

B) Cheating

C) Robbery

D) Theft

42 / 50

Chapter X of the Penal Code deals with offences relating to:

A) Coin and Government Stamps

B) Elections

C) Public Nuisance

D) Contempt of lawful authority of public servants

43 / 50

The offence of criminal breach of trust requires that a person must be:

A) Found in possession of stolen property

B) Deceiving someone to deliver property

C) Using force to take property

D) Entrusted with property or dominion over the property

44 / 50

Which Law Commission report recommended the revision of the Penal Code?

A) 100th Report

B) 42nd Report

C) 1st Report

D) 14th Report

45 / 50

In the offence of kidnapping, the consent of the minor is:

A) Not at all material

B) A valid defence

C) Considered if the minor is intelligent

D) Considered if the minor is above 10

46 / 50

Whether a provocation was "grave and sudden" is considered a:

A) Question of fact

B) Matter of judicial discretion

C) Constitutional right

D) Question of law

47 / 50

Dishonest misappropriation of property is defined in:

A) Section 405

B) Section 403

C) Section 390

D) Section 378

48 / 50

The punishment for the offence of forgery is provided in:

A) Section 466

B) Section 464

C) Section 465

D) Section 463

49 / 50

Within the meaning of Section 191 of the Penal Code, an affidavit is considered:

A) Evidence

B) A contract

C) Hearsay

D) A private document

50 / 50

Culpable homicide is murder if the act is done with the intention of causing bodily injury which is:

A) Meant to threaten the victim

B) Likely to cause a fracture

C) Sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death

D) Intended to cause pain

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