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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. Where don't laws apply?
(a) In other countries.
(b) In communities not recognizing the laws.
(c) In other cities.
(d) In other morality centers.

2. What would we find if we were to examine many types of laws, according to Hart in chapter 3?
(a) Objections to Austin's basic definition of law.
(b) Difference in the letter of the law.
(c) No difference in the spirit of the law.
(d) Different laws based on morale.

3. What do we make relative to the interpretation of rules?
(a) Choice about morale.
(b) Specific choises.
(c) Choice based on Primary or Secondary laws.
(d) Arbitrary selection.

4. What becomes guides for claims, demands and the like?
(a) The rules from an internal point of view.
(b) The Law from an internalpoint of view.
(c) The Law from an external point of view.
(d) The rules from an external point of view.

5. What do laws specify?
(a) What is allowed and forbidden.
(b) Whom they apply to.
(c) What the penalty is for over stopping it.
(d) Who may coerce and when.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are authoritative quality of general rules sometime qualified as?

2. What is the advantage of having judges that can render final judgments?

3. What does the distinction make sense of, according to Hart?

4. What would breaking the rule allow some individual to do?

5. What cannot laws be reduced to?

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