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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Variety of Laws.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are laws according to Hart?
(a) Rules.
(b) Customs.
(c) Control measures.
(d) Preventative measure.

3. What is a common myth about laws?
(a) That they are written with the public's best interest in mind.
(b) That they are easy to understand.
(c) That they are all public.
(d) That they are fair.

4. How do some react to rules themselves?
(a) With disdain.
(b) With joy.
(c) With skepticism.
(d) With sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first question Hart identified?

2. How does Hart qualifies most statements made about law by great minds?

3. What are laws supreme in?

4. What cannot laws be reduced to?

5. How are laws obeyed?

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