1. Which of the following was the result in O’Shea v. Welch, the case in the text involving whether an employee was acting within the scope of his employment when, while driving to deliver a vendor’s gift (football tickets) to his employer’s office, he turned into a service station to obtain an estimate regarding nonemergency maintenance on his car?
The court found that as a matter of law the employee was not acting within the scope of his employment because he was involved in a frolic of his own.
The court found that as a matter of law the employee was not acting within the scope of his employment because he was involved in a detour.
The court found that as a matter of law the employee was acting within the scope of his employment because he was involved in only a detour, not a frolic on his own.
The court found that the jury should determine whether the employee was acting within the scope of his employment during the time period at issue.
2. A principal may be held liable for the torts of a(n) ________ only in extraordinary circumstances, usually involving highly dangerous acts or nondelegable duties.
agent
servant
employee
independent contractor
3. Which of the following are autonomous computer programs that can be dispatched by the user to execute certain tasks?
Electronic agents
Software identifiers
Click programs
Fortran identifiers
4. An ________ occurs if a principal approves or accepts the benefits of the actions of an otherwise unauthorized agent.
agency by ratification
agency by estoppel
agency by independent action
agency by intervention
5. Once an agent is given express authority, he or she also has _______ authority to do whatever is reasonable to complete the task he or she has been instructed to undertake.
implied
absolute
limited
contractual