EPD COURSE REVIEW QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS | UPDATED 2025/2026
EDITION
◉ Misdemeanor. Answer: An offense punishable by a jail sentence of
less than one year.
◉ Peace Officer. Answer: Any person who is required by law to
maintain public order
and make arrests.
◉ attempt. Answer: To try to commit a particular offense.
◉ assault. Answer: An act which leads the victim to believe they may
be harmed.
◉ Battery. Answer: To intentionally cause bodily harm to an
individual or to touch
someone in an insulting or provoking manner.
◉ aggrivating circumstances. Answer: Specific circumstances which
are present during an offense
, which increase the severity of an offense; they may include the
use of a weapon, a location or a type of victim (elderly, juvenile,
mentally handicapped, police officer, school official). A stricter
penalty may be enforced for these offenses.
◉ Domestic Battery. Answer: A battery in which the subject and
victim are members of the
same household.
◉ Home Invasion. Answer: To knowingly enter the victim/s home
while the victim is present
and intentionally cause injury to the victim or while armed with a
weapon, the subject threatens the use of force.
◉ sexual conduct. Answer: The intentional touching of another for
the purpose of sexual
gratification.
◉ criminal sexual assault. Answer: The act of sexual penetration
without consent or
victim does not have the ability to consent by reason of age
VERIFIED ANSWERS | UPDATED 2025/2026
EDITION
◉ Misdemeanor. Answer: An offense punishable by a jail sentence of
less than one year.
◉ Peace Officer. Answer: Any person who is required by law to
maintain public order
and make arrests.
◉ attempt. Answer: To try to commit a particular offense.
◉ assault. Answer: An act which leads the victim to believe they may
be harmed.
◉ Battery. Answer: To intentionally cause bodily harm to an
individual or to touch
someone in an insulting or provoking manner.
◉ aggrivating circumstances. Answer: Specific circumstances which
are present during an offense
, which increase the severity of an offense; they may include the
use of a weapon, a location or a type of victim (elderly, juvenile,
mentally handicapped, police officer, school official). A stricter
penalty may be enforced for these offenses.
◉ Domestic Battery. Answer: A battery in which the subject and
victim are members of the
same household.
◉ Home Invasion. Answer: To knowingly enter the victim/s home
while the victim is present
and intentionally cause injury to the victim or while armed with a
weapon, the subject threatens the use of force.
◉ sexual conduct. Answer: The intentional touching of another for
the purpose of sexual
gratification.
◉ criminal sexual assault. Answer: The act of sexual penetration
without consent or
victim does not have the ability to consent by reason of age
