Final answer:
A) Assault
The correct answer is Assault, which involves an individual intentionally creating a reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact in another person, causing them to fear bodily harm.
Step-by-step explanation:
The situation described in the student's question involves intentionally attempting to or threatening to touch a person's body without consent, causing the person to fear bodily harm. This definition corresponds to Assault (Option A).
Assault in legal terms refers to an act where an individual intentionally creates a reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. Essentially, it's the threat or attempt to injure someone that makes the victim fear that they are about to be struck or touched in a harmful way, even if the physical contact itself does not occur.
Battery, on the other hand, would involve actual physical contact. Harassment and negligence are different legal terms that do not apply to this scenario as specifically as assault does.