In determining whether a particular act occurred within the scope of employment, courts will evaluate whether the employee’s act was by the employer; the time, place, and of the act; whether the act was one performed by the employees on behalf of their employers; the extent to which the employer’s was advanced by the act; the extent to which the interests of the employee were involved; whether the employer the means by which an injury was inflicted; whether the employer had reason to know that the employee would the act in question, and whether the employee had done it before; and whether the act involved the commission of a(n) crime. fill in the blanks with words that would best complete the passage.