BA 207 FINAL EXAM (GRCC, Prof.
Hillard) Pt 2/4 (Tests 4-6)
(QZ4) T or F: In order to promote competition, the law never holds a person liable for
slandering a business competitor - Answers -False
(QZ4) T or F: Because a celebrity's name and image are considered to be in the public
domain, a business may use the celebrity's name or image in its advertising without the
celebrity's permission and without compensating the celebrity. - Answers -False
(QZ4) T or F: A landowner's liability to a trespassing child who is injured on the property
is always the same as the landowner's liability to a trespassing adult. - Answers -False
(QZ4) T or F: Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language. -
Answers -True
(QZ4) T or F: A defamatory statement must be communicated to a third party to be
actionable (i.e, in order for the plaintiff to be able to sue). - Answers -True
(QZ4) T or F: Negligence per se may occur on the violation of a statute. - Answers -True
(QZ4) T or F: In theory, causation in fact is limitless (i.e., you can show that almost
anything is a factual cause) - Answers -True
(QZ4) T or F: The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applies if an event causing harm does not
normally occur in the absence of negligence (i.e., the victim would not have been
injured unless someone was negligent) - Answers -True
(QZ4) T or F: Business owners have no duty to exercise reasonable care to protect
invitees - Answers -False
(QZ4) T or F: A business owner is always responsible for injuries that occur on his
property, regardless of what caused the injury - Answers -False
(QZ4) T or F: To be responsible for committing an intentional tort, it is sufficient for the
person to be merely negligent - Answers -False
(QZ4) Dirk is driving a sport utility vehicle in which Elin is a passenger when they are
involved in a traffic accident, and Elin is injured. Liability may be imposed on Dirk for
Elin's injury if Dirk's driving is: - Answers -The causation in fact and the proximate cause
of the injury
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