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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?
(a) Comprehensive.
(b) Detailed.
(c) Applicable.
(d) Long.

2. Who is the habit of obedience understood to apply to?
(a) A limited group of people.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Law makers.
(d) Law enforcement.

3. What are rulings within the power of the legislatures?
(a) Rules.
(b) Morale.
(c) Customs.
(d) Laws.

4. What implies that a rule exists?
(a) That someone has an obligation.
(b) That morale exist.
(c) That customs were created.
(d) That society exist.

5. What are customary society's rules unable to do?
(a) Create laws.
(b) Have a legal continuity between rulers.
(c) Adapt to changes.
(d) Have strong rules.

6. What do laws regulate in advance?
(a) Offenses.
(b) Changes in morale.
(c) Precedent.
(d) Succession.

7. What would we find if we were to examine many types of laws, according to Hart in chapter 3?
(a) Different laws based on morale.
(b) No difference in the spirit of the law.
(c) Objections to Austin's basic definition of law.
(d) Difference in the letter of the law.

8. What would breaking the rule do to society?
(a) Hurt it.
(b) Make it stronger.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Make it more punitive.

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

10. How would a man keep law from applying to him, according to Austin?
(a) Keep the probability of punishment low.
(b) By making changes to the law.
(c) By ignoring it.
(d) By being rich.

11. What do rules requires a critical reflective attitude about?
(a) Whom they apply to.
(b) Patterns of behavior.
(c) Laws.
(d) Who enforces them.

12. Who makes the law created by past regimes binding, according to some philosophers?
(a) The current authority.
(b) The force of habit.
(c) Custom.
(d) The police force.

13. What becomes guides for claims, demands and the like?
(a) The rules from an internal point of view.
(b) The Law from an internalpoint of view.
(c) The Law from an external point of view.
(d) The rules from an external point of view.

14. What does the distinction make sense of, according to Hart?
(a) How law should work.
(b) How custom is structured.
(c) Many difficulties previously unsolved.
(d) How moral is structured.

15. What aren't obligations, according to Austin and others?
(a) Natural.
(b) Binding.
(c) Obligatory.
(d) Typical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do laws dictated by the queen of England not apply to, according to Hart?

2. What would allow all laws to be considered conditional orders to officials to apply sanctions?

3. Who wrote Province of Jurisprudence Determined?

4. Where do many laws originate from?

5. What do primary rules apply to?

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