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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Laws, Commands, and Orders.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the concept of law according to Hart?
(a) Vague.
(b) Hard to analyze.
(c) Only understood by scholars.
(d) Easy to understand.

3. What is rare for an individual to do in modern society?
(a) Do something that is moral.
(b) Do something not covered by a law.
(c) Order someone to do something.
(d) Do something that is not illegal.

4. What do rules do?
(a) Forbid certain type of behavior under penalty.
(b) Allow law makers to make laws.
(c) Allow behaviors that are not forbidden.
(d) Allow a community to live in peace.

5. What are imperatives backed by?
(a) Rewards.
(b) Laws.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Hart give about non optional conduct that are not law?

2. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?

3. What do laws specify?

4. What could we rest with according to Hart?

5. How is law understood, according to the author of Province of Jurisprudence Determined?

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