Spartan Lawyer Winter 2018

Could you pass CONTRACTS today?

As a 1L, you spent hours arguing with your study group about enforceability, drawing elaborate flow charts for performance of contract, and finding promissory estoppel everywhere you looked (whether or not it’s there – and it’s usually not).

Find out if you’d beat the curve in Dean Lawrence Ponoroff’s first-year Contracts class!

Mutual assent is determined based upon:

  1. Subjective theory
  2. A meeting of the minds
  3. Objective theory
  4. The existence of consideration

Which of the following agreements does not require a written note or memorandum order to be enforceable?

  1. A promise by an executor to answer for a debt of the estate
  2. A promise for the construction of an improvement on land
  3. A promise made in consideration of marriage
  4. A special promise to answer for the debt of another

Which of the following would not constitute good consideration?

  1. A performance
  2. A return promise
  3. A forbearance
  4. Reliance

The presumption that mutual covenants will be performed simultaneously is called:

  1. Constructive conditions of exchange
  2. The rule of independent covenants
  3. The parol evidence rule
  4. Adequate assurances of performance

Show/Hide Answers

C, B, D, A