Crime and Punishment A History of the Criminal Justice System 2nd International Edition – Test Bank

CHAPTER 1

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. “Only a fool would go out to dinner without having made his will” refers to which ancient city?
2. Athens
3. Byzantium
4. Rome*
5. Sumeria

 

2. Which of the following ancient police forces also served in a firefighting capacity?
3. the Urban Cohort
4. the Praetorian Guard
5. the Klingon Legion
6. the Vigiles*

 

3. In ancient society treason was typically punished with
4. the death penalty*
5. imprisonment
6. corporal punishment
7. banishment

 

4. The wergild
5. was used to gain confessions from heretics*
6. was a form of compensation paid by the accused to a victim
7. encouraged revenge by the victim’s family
8. was a Roman innovation

 

5. Death by the drinking of hemlock
6. was the main means of execution in Rome
7. was the most merciful form of execution in Athens*
8. was instituted by Constantine
9. was not allowed by the Greeks because it is suicide

 

6. The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity was
7. Diocletian
8. Justinian
9. Augustus
10. Constantine*

 

7. Which law code is least likely to prescribe torture for punishment?
8. Draco’s
9. Roman
10. Mosaic*
11. Constantine’s