MCJA PHASE 1 TIPS ACTUAL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The definition of an incapacitated person is any person who is impaired by reason of
intellectual disability to the extent that he or she lacks sufficient understanding or
capacity to make, communicate or implement responsible decisions concerning his or
her person or property.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Under Maine law, law enforcement officers are mandated to report to DHHS if they
have probable cause to suspect that a child has been or is likely to be abused or
neglected or that a suspicious child death has occurred, or that an incapacitated or
dependent adult has been or is at substantial risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔When interacting with a person exhibiting variant behavior, officers should maintain
control, speak in a calm, soothing voice and be ___________________.
Confrontational
Non-confrontational
Authoritative
Inflexible - ✔✔Non-confrontational
✔✔A person is guilty of causing "unwarranted hospitalization" or causing a "denial of
rights" if he or she willfully causes the unwarranted hospitalization of any person or the
denial to any person of any of the rights accorded to him or her under the law.
Unwarranted hospitalization and causing a denial of rights are ______ crimes.
Class B
Class C
,Class D
Class E - ✔✔Class C
✔✔When transporting a person in protective custody, an officer should consider using
the least restrictive form of transportation.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔A law enforcement officer's response on the scene of a case involving sexual
assault includes which of the following responsibilities? (Select all that apply.)
Consider all crime scenes, including vehicles and the bodies of the suspect and victim.
Collecting and preserving evidence.
Conducting preliminary interviews with the victim, suspect and all witnesses. -
✔✔Consider all crime scenes, including vehicles and the bodies of the suspect and
victim.
Collecting and preserving evidence.
Conducting preliminary interviews with the victim, suspect and all witnesses.
✔✔When documenting statements made by a victim of sexual assault, the officer
should:
Write them down word for word.
Use professional law enforcement language.
Pay close attention to proper grammar and punctuation.
Sanitize the description so that it is acceptable court language. - ✔✔Write them down
word for word.
✔✔When conducting a preliminary interview with a victim of sexual assault, the law
enforcement officer should do all of the following EXCEPT:
Provide information about community advocacy services.
Ask the victim not to bathe, urinate, defecate, etc.
Conduct the interview in a public place with background noise.
Encourage the victim to get a forensic examination. - ✔✔Conduct the interview in a
public place with background noise.
✔✔This Sexual Assault Response Team role provides emotional support, short-term
crisis intervention, advocacy, and appropriate referrals for the sexual assault victim in
his or her involvement with the medical and criminal justice systems.
Sexual assault crisis advocate
Prosecutor
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
,Law enforcement officer - ✔✔Law enforcement officer
✔✔Potential evidence in a sexual assault case includes all of the following choices,
EXCEPT:
Suspect and victim clothing.
Food that has been eaten.
Biological evidence such as blood, semen, and saliva.
Materials such as bedding, towels, carpet and sofa cushions. - ✔✔Food that has been
eaten.
✔✔The law enforcement officer may need a search warrant to
____________________________. (Select all that apply.)
Conduct a sexual assault examination with the suspect.
Obtain necessary biological reference samples such as blood and saliva. - ✔✔Conduct
a sexual assault examination with the suspect.
Obtain necessary biological reference samples such as blood and saliva.
✔✔When conducting a preliminary investigation of a sexual assault, law enforcement
officers should determine the type of "consent" at issue in the case to guide the rest of
the investigation. Legal lack of consent may come from all of the following, EXCEPT:
The victim was intoxicated.
The victim had a disability.
The perpetrator used force.
The perpetrator was intoxicated. - ✔✔The perpetrator was intoxicated.
✔✔The purposes of the forensic examination of a victim of sexual assault include which
of the following? (Select all that apply.)
To examine the victim for injuries and provide necessary treatment.
To set up time for the victim to meet with the prosecutor.
To collect and preserve any evidence present. - ✔✔To examine the victim for injuries
and provide necessary treatment.
To collect and preserve any evidence present.
✔✔The purpose of the Sexual Assault Response Team is to create a collaborative and
cooperative interdisciplinary response to cases involving sexual violence.
True
False - ✔✔True
, ✔✔This Sexual Assault Response Team role is a person with advanced education,
training, and experience to conduct a comprehensive medical/forensic examination of
victims of sexual assault.
Sexual assault crisis advocate
Prosecutor
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
Law enforcement officer - ✔✔Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
✔✔Which chapter in Title 17-A addresses Offenses Against the Person?
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 11
Chapter 12 - ✔✔Chapter 9
✔✔Under 17-A M.R.S.A. Section 207, the definition of assault is as follows: A person
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury or offensive physical contact
to another person. Which of the following would constitute an assault under Section
207? (Select all that apply.)
A person angrily pushes aside a stranger in the doorway as the person exits a room.
A person punches his/her roommate in a drunken altercation.
Two adult siblings who reside together hit each other during an argument. - ✔✔A
person punches his/her roommate in a drunken altercation.
Two adult siblings who reside together hit each other during an argument.
✔✔Criminal threatening under 17-A M.R.S.A. Section 209 is committed when a person
"intentionally or knowingly places another person in fear of imminent bodily injury." What
is the required culpable state of mind for this offense?
Imminent bodily injury.
Places another person in fear.
Intentionally or knowingly.
Beyond a reasonable doubt. - ✔✔Intentionally or knowingly.
✔✔An example of gross sexual assault is what is traditionally thought of as "rape," and
could include a person who forces another person to engage in sexual intercourse.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔An example of sexual abuse of a minor could involve a 35-year-old high school
teacher engaging in a sexual act with a 16-year-old student, or a 20-year-old person
engaging in a sexual act with a person who is 15 years old.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The definition of an incapacitated person is any person who is impaired by reason of
intellectual disability to the extent that he or she lacks sufficient understanding or
capacity to make, communicate or implement responsible decisions concerning his or
her person or property.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Under Maine law, law enforcement officers are mandated to report to DHHS if they
have probable cause to suspect that a child has been or is likely to be abused or
neglected or that a suspicious child death has occurred, or that an incapacitated or
dependent adult has been or is at substantial risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔When interacting with a person exhibiting variant behavior, officers should maintain
control, speak in a calm, soothing voice and be ___________________.
Confrontational
Non-confrontational
Authoritative
Inflexible - ✔✔Non-confrontational
✔✔A person is guilty of causing "unwarranted hospitalization" or causing a "denial of
rights" if he or she willfully causes the unwarranted hospitalization of any person or the
denial to any person of any of the rights accorded to him or her under the law.
Unwarranted hospitalization and causing a denial of rights are ______ crimes.
Class B
Class C
,Class D
Class E - ✔✔Class C
✔✔When transporting a person in protective custody, an officer should consider using
the least restrictive form of transportation.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔A law enforcement officer's response on the scene of a case involving sexual
assault includes which of the following responsibilities? (Select all that apply.)
Consider all crime scenes, including vehicles and the bodies of the suspect and victim.
Collecting and preserving evidence.
Conducting preliminary interviews with the victim, suspect and all witnesses. -
✔✔Consider all crime scenes, including vehicles and the bodies of the suspect and
victim.
Collecting and preserving evidence.
Conducting preliminary interviews with the victim, suspect and all witnesses.
✔✔When documenting statements made by a victim of sexual assault, the officer
should:
Write them down word for word.
Use professional law enforcement language.
Pay close attention to proper grammar and punctuation.
Sanitize the description so that it is acceptable court language. - ✔✔Write them down
word for word.
✔✔When conducting a preliminary interview with a victim of sexual assault, the law
enforcement officer should do all of the following EXCEPT:
Provide information about community advocacy services.
Ask the victim not to bathe, urinate, defecate, etc.
Conduct the interview in a public place with background noise.
Encourage the victim to get a forensic examination. - ✔✔Conduct the interview in a
public place with background noise.
✔✔This Sexual Assault Response Team role provides emotional support, short-term
crisis intervention, advocacy, and appropriate referrals for the sexual assault victim in
his or her involvement with the medical and criminal justice systems.
Sexual assault crisis advocate
Prosecutor
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
,Law enforcement officer - ✔✔Law enforcement officer
✔✔Potential evidence in a sexual assault case includes all of the following choices,
EXCEPT:
Suspect and victim clothing.
Food that has been eaten.
Biological evidence such as blood, semen, and saliva.
Materials such as bedding, towels, carpet and sofa cushions. - ✔✔Food that has been
eaten.
✔✔The law enforcement officer may need a search warrant to
____________________________. (Select all that apply.)
Conduct a sexual assault examination with the suspect.
Obtain necessary biological reference samples such as blood and saliva. - ✔✔Conduct
a sexual assault examination with the suspect.
Obtain necessary biological reference samples such as blood and saliva.
✔✔When conducting a preliminary investigation of a sexual assault, law enforcement
officers should determine the type of "consent" at issue in the case to guide the rest of
the investigation. Legal lack of consent may come from all of the following, EXCEPT:
The victim was intoxicated.
The victim had a disability.
The perpetrator used force.
The perpetrator was intoxicated. - ✔✔The perpetrator was intoxicated.
✔✔The purposes of the forensic examination of a victim of sexual assault include which
of the following? (Select all that apply.)
To examine the victim for injuries and provide necessary treatment.
To set up time for the victim to meet with the prosecutor.
To collect and preserve any evidence present. - ✔✔To examine the victim for injuries
and provide necessary treatment.
To collect and preserve any evidence present.
✔✔The purpose of the Sexual Assault Response Team is to create a collaborative and
cooperative interdisciplinary response to cases involving sexual violence.
True
False - ✔✔True
, ✔✔This Sexual Assault Response Team role is a person with advanced education,
training, and experience to conduct a comprehensive medical/forensic examination of
victims of sexual assault.
Sexual assault crisis advocate
Prosecutor
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
Law enforcement officer - ✔✔Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner
✔✔Which chapter in Title 17-A addresses Offenses Against the Person?
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 11
Chapter 12 - ✔✔Chapter 9
✔✔Under 17-A M.R.S.A. Section 207, the definition of assault is as follows: A person
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury or offensive physical contact
to another person. Which of the following would constitute an assault under Section
207? (Select all that apply.)
A person angrily pushes aside a stranger in the doorway as the person exits a room.
A person punches his/her roommate in a drunken altercation.
Two adult siblings who reside together hit each other during an argument. - ✔✔A
person punches his/her roommate in a drunken altercation.
Two adult siblings who reside together hit each other during an argument.
✔✔Criminal threatening under 17-A M.R.S.A. Section 209 is committed when a person
"intentionally or knowingly places another person in fear of imminent bodily injury." What
is the required culpable state of mind for this offense?
Imminent bodily injury.
Places another person in fear.
Intentionally or knowingly.
Beyond a reasonable doubt. - ✔✔Intentionally or knowingly.
✔✔An example of gross sexual assault is what is traditionally thought of as "rape," and
could include a person who forces another person to engage in sexual intercourse.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔An example of sexual abuse of a minor could involve a 35-year-old high school
teacher engaging in a sexual act with a 16-year-old student, or a 20-year-old person
engaging in a sexual act with a person who is 15 years old.
