MPRE PRACTICE QUESTIONS with correct answers

Applicant Boaz was an outstanding candidate for the bar who came from an excellent family. He had outstanding academic credentials in both undergraduate school and in law school, as well as an absolutely impeccable previous work experience. However, Boaz did have a little problem with speeding. In fact, his past driving record indicates that since obtaining a driver's license (10 years ago), Boaz has received 20 different speeding tickets (on average, about two per year) including two within the year immediately preceding the date of his application for admission to the bar. When filling out the sworn bar application, Boaz inadvertently omitted two of the total twenty prior speeding tickets (i.e., he simply had so many tickets to locate and report that somehow two tickets from his earliest driving years were inadvertently misplaced by Boaz and not included in the list). Would the bar committee be justified in denying admission for Boaz to practice law on the basis that he lacked "good moral character"? a. Yes, because his failure to list all twenty of his previous speeding tickets is conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation for which he could be disciplined as an attorney. b. Yes, if the committee determines that, despite his unintentional omission of the two earliest speeding tickets on his bar application, Boaz's application (showing a total of 18 speeding tickets, two of which were received in the current year) nevertheless indicates Boaz's present disrespect for the authority of the law. c. No, because Boaz did not knowingly make a false statement of material fact or omit two of the speeding tickets on purpose. d. No, because Boaz's past speeding tickets are not relevant to his fitness to practice law or overall good moral character. - Answer b. Yes, if the committee determines that, despite his unintentional omission of the two earliest speeding tickets on his bar application, Boaz's application (showing