Children playing on a neighbor's property fall down a hill and hit one of the rusting cars that
landholder keeps on the property. The landholder will attempt to avoid liability because the accident
involved
A) real property B) a natural condition
C) personal property D) an artificial condition
Q. #2One defense to a claim of negligence is the doctrine of assumption of the risk.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. #3If the plaintiff can show, at trial for a claim of negligence, that the plaintiff was helpless to avoid the accident that gave rise to the claim, is to show that the plaintiff was helpless.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. #4A plaintiff knows that the wheel bearing of the front tire of the plaintiff's bicycle is failing but
nonetheless decides to go for a bike ride. The bearing fails and plaintiff swerves into on-coming traffic
and gets hit. The driver will use which defense to escape liability?
A) contributory negligence B) last clear chance
C) comparative negligence D) assumption of the risk
Q. #5That theory of comparative negligence which would allow plaintiff to recover if 8 liable for the
injury but not for 39 liable for the injury is known as
A) partial comparative negligence
B) modified comparative negligence
C) slight-gross theory of comparative negligence
D) modified comparative negligence
Q. #6An owner owes a duty of care to all who use real property except
A) when a person is a trespasser B) during an Act of God
C) for natural conditions D) when a person is an invitee