An inchoate crime among the listed options is which of the following?

• A. Conspiracy
• B. Assault
• C. Battery
• D. Rape

Answer: (A)

The main idea is that inchoate crimes are offenses formed by planning or seeking to commit a crime, even if the target crime never comes to fruition. Conspiracy fits this because it requires an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime and steps taken toward carrying it out; liability attaches to the plan itself, not just the completed harm. If the intended crime never happens, the conspiracy can still be punishable in many jurisdictions. The other options describe offenses that involve actual harmful acts or sexual violence, not mere planning: assault and battery involve physical harm, and rape involves nonconsensual intercourse. So conspiracy is the inchoate crime here.