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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 shares the same drawback as a book of statuses?
(a) Custom laws.
(b) Ratified legislation.
(c) Set of precedent.
(d) Set of ratified legislation or judicial rulings.

2. Which status is the closest to the Austin/coercive order model?
(a) Penal status.
(b) Primary status.
(c) Secondary status.
(d) Civil statutes.

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

4. What do the laws of judicial practice not define?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Violations.
(c) Prison time.
(d) Jurisprudence.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do rules do?

3. What does attempting a single definition do to the fundamental elements of the law?

4. What would we find if we were to examine many types of laws, according to Hart in chapter 3?

5. What is in a sense general?

(see the answer key)

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