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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sovereign and Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are habits?
(a) Laws that apply to everyone.
(b) Laws that apply to only a small group of people.
(c) Rules of thumbs.
(d) Written rule without established judges.

2. What is the first step in figuring out what law is according to Hart?
(a) What is law.
(b) How are law passed.
(c) Who are law created.
(d) What has confounded so many.

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

4. What do the law of torts specify the conditions of?
(a) Compensation for harms produced by the society as a whole.
(b) Compensation for harms produced by the actions of a few people.
(c) Compensation for harms produced by the one own actions.
(d) Compensation for harms produced by the actions of others.

5. When does the concept of nullity arise?
(a) When a judge cannot reach a decision.
(b) When none of the conditions of power is fulfilled.
(c) When a law cannot be interpreted.
(d) When one of the conditions for power is unfulfilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hart qualifies Province of Jurisprudence Determined, according to Chapter 2?

2. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?

3. What is it best to try and acquire according to Hart?

4. How many questions did Hart identified that combine into the question of what law is?

5. What is a common myth about laws?

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