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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. When do rules obligate?
(a) When society organises itself.
(b) When morale codes are not enough.
(c) When customs failed.
(d) When demand for conformity is insistent.

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

3. What do laws modify in many cases?
(a) Sensitivity.
(b) The range of application of others laws.
(c) The judge understanding the law.
(d) The liberty of the people.

4. What do many not realize habits are?
(a) Changing.
(b) Observable.
(c) Unavoidable.
(d) Changeable.

5. How can laws of judicial practice and other like it be understood as?
(a) Indeterminate laws.
(b) Rules to be followed.
(c) Guidelines.
(d) Rules through distortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is is caught between the poles of excessive formalism and excessive rule-skepticism?

2. What are customary society's rules unable to do?

3. Who make laws?

4. What implies that a rule exists?

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

(see the answer key)

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