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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Laws and Morals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would allow all laws to be considered conditional orders to officials to apply sanctions?
(a) Be sure to have everyone know about the laws.
(b) Written laws.
(c) The ability for the judges to modify laws.
(d) Elaborate restatements.

2. What is a common myth about laws?
(a) That they are all public.
(b) That they are written with the public's best interest in mind.
(c) That they are fair.
(d) That they are easy to understand.

3. How does Hart call a legal system when one group cease to do its parts?
(a) It is lumpsided.
(b) It is unfinished.
(c) It is unused.
(d) It has pathology.

4. What does Hart say of the determination of the conditions necessary to have a legal system?
(a) It is hard.
(b) It is easy.
(c) It is evidence based.
(d) It is impossible.

5. What standard do we have by which to judge the law?
(a) Looking at crime statistics.
(b) Observing judge.
(c) Conducting suveys.
(d) Observing natural facts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can natural law be understood as having?

2. Where do many laws originate from?

3. How many connections between morality and law does Hart discuss?

4. What happens when secondary rules are accepted, according to Chapter 6?

5. How many conditions are necessary to have a legal system?

(see the answer key)

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