TCOLE State Test 2023 Study Questions and
Answers UPDATED 2025 Graded A
______________________includes authority, board, bureau, commission, committee,
council, department, district, division, and office.
Agency
A civil citation is served by ________________.
A and B are correct.
According to Sec. 8.01 of the Penal Code, it is an affirmative defense to prosecution that
at the time of the conduct charged the actor, as a result of severe mental disease or
defect, did not know that his conduct was wrong. This general defense is called:
Insanity
which of the following is not a tool that can redirect someone's behavior?
second guess
According to the Occupations Code, a person licensed as a peace officer must complete
40 hours of legislatively required continuing education training once every
24 months
___________________ Mean's any contact between any part of the genitals of one
person; or the penetration of the genitals or the anus of another person with an object
deviant sexual intercourse
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A juvenile processing office may detain a child for not longer than_______________
hours.
6
a person, intending to cause serious bodily injury to any individual, commits an act
clearly dangerous to human life and the act caused the death of an individual.
murder
The three basic concepts of weaponless strategies are__________.
Self control, balance, awareness
The sixth amendment covers all of the following except___________.
Excessive bail
Known as the "Carroll doctrine" which holds that a warrantless search of a readily
mobile motor vehicle by a peace officer who has probable cause to believe that the
vehicle contains incriminating items subject to seizure is not unreasonable under the
__________ Amendment.
Fourth
At the moment of arrest,____________________ ceases to build.
Probable Cause
According to the traffic code, an operator may not follow closer than __________ feet
from a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or drive into or park the vehicle in the
block where the fire apparatus has stopped to answer a fire alarm.
500
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According to the Family Code, a protective order is effective for the period stated in the
order. If a period is not stated the order is effective until the _______ of the date the
order was issued.
Second anniversary
The level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant not guilty of a crime is
_________________.
reasonable doubt
which of the following is one of the helpful tools used in verbal persuasion?
empathy
The objective of using control is to elect___________ from the violator.
Cooperation
A person who falsely, fraudulently, or willfully permits another to violate this subtitle is
guilty of the violation.
inchoate offence
Following the issuance of a Protective Order, if the victim reconciles with the person to
whom the order was directed_________.
The protective order remains in full force and effect
A person commits an offensive if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person.
This definition would best fit the offensive of_______________.
Kidnapping
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