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51. Sunrise Travel is a Florida corporation that markets cruises and other vacation packages. It employs 500 people. Sunrise Travel’s Articles of Incorporation state that all employees are considered at-will employees, except for the President and other officers appointed by the Board of Directors. Mr. Hernandez is the President of Sunrise Travel. Sunrise Travel’s Human Resources Department issued an employee handbook stating that the rules in the handbook apply to all at-will employees. If a paralegal concluded that the rules of the employee handbook do not apply to Mr. Hernandez, would that conclusion be correct?
  1. Yes, because the President is not considered an at-will employee of Sunrise Travel.
  2. Yes, because Mr. Hernandez is not considered an at-will employee of Sunrise Travel.
  3. No, because being an officer of Sunrise Travel does not preclude application of the handbook.
  4. No, because the handbook was not approved by the Board of Directors.
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52. A crime is to a criminal as ________ is to a(n) _________.
  1. pirate : piracy
  2. art : artist
  3. dog : cat
  4. smiling : laugh
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53. Homer is paralegal working for the Law Office of Marge Simpson. Ms. Simpson is handling a real estate case that involves Lot A and Lot B, which are adjacent to each other. The owner of Lot A began digging a hole on his lot as the basement for the house he wanted to build. One edge of the hole was near the boundary line with Lot B, and during the digging process the edge near Lot B collapsed and part of Lot B fell into the hole on Lot A. As Ms. Simpson is drafting a motion, she asks Homer to find cases with facts similar to the fact of this case. Which of the following cases is most analogous to the case Ms. Simpson is handling?
  1. A case in which a mining company operated an open-pit mining operation on land that it owned and one area of the open-pit mine collapsed on a hauling company’s truck.
  2. A case in which two neighbors owned adjacent lots in a subdivision, and one neighbor’s above-ground swimming pool sprung a leak and flooded the other neighbor’s property.
  3. A case in which a farmer owned the surface rights to farmland, and a mining company owned the subsurface mining rights, and a mining operation caused the surface to collapse.
  4. A case in which a driver lost control of her vehicle on an icy, rural road, and the vehicle left the road and ran through a landowner’s flower garden.
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54. Which of the following sentences does NOT correctly capitalize the reference to a government?
  1. Seattle is a city in Washington State.
  2. The state of Illinois prohibits texting while driving.
  3. The district of Columbia is the capital of the United States.
  4. The City of New Orleans was a train that ran between Chicago and New Orleans.
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55. A jurat is to a notary block as a(n) _________ is to a(n) _________.
  1. trustee : beneficiary
  2. affidavit : affiant
  3. verdict : judgment
  4. code law : statutory law
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