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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Formalism and Rule-Skepticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some primitive society rules by?
(a) Customs.
(b) Rules.
(c) Moral.
(d) Laws.

2. What are laws?
(a) Written customs.
(b) Optional rules.
(c) Standing orders.
(d) Moral imperatives.

3. What do Hart say of making sense of authority in term of sovereign people?
(a) It is stable.
(b) It is easy to understand.
(c) It is problematic.
(d) It is necessary.

4. What do making laws differ from?
(a) Regulating behaviors.
(b) Converting customs.
(c) Giving orders to individuals.
(d) Regulating lives.

5. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?
(a) Duties.
(b) The spirit of the law.
(c) Morality.
(d) The letter of the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are 'real' rules, according to Hart?

2. When may a society acquire a system of supremacy of rules?

3. What do Hart distinguish between in Chapter 5?

4. How can laws of judicial practice and other like it be understood as?

5. How would a man keep law from applying to him, according to Austin?

(see the answer key)

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