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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is related to law according to Hart?
(a) People.
(b) Morality.
(c) Customs.
(d) Society.

3. What does the second type of rule do?
(a) Confer public and private power.
(b) Confer power to nations.
(c) Confer the pwoer to create laws.
(d) Confer power to judges.

4. Who denies there are true laws against murder?
(a) Roberts.
(b) Kristiansen.
(c) Kelsen.
(d) Kartosen.

5. What do Hart distinguish between in Chapter 5?
(a) Moral and law.
(b) Union and non union laws.
(c) Morality and custom.
(d) Primary and secondary rules.

6. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?
(a) The sovereign is above the law.
(b) Everyone is entitled to a trial.
(c) Rich people are above the law.
(d) Those who make the law must abide by it.

7. What do the first type of rules do?
(a) Impose judgement.
(b) Impose duties.
(c) Impose behavior.
(d) Impose sentenses.

8. What have judges power to do in the structure judicial practice?
(a) Make decisions on their own.
(b) Try certain types of cases.
(c) Interpret laws.
(d) Create laws.

9. What is it best to try and acquire according to Hart?
(a) The idea of law.
(b) The understanding of the law.
(c) The word of the law.
(d) The spirit of the law.

10. What makes social pressure serious?
(a) Morale constrains.
(b) Rules being important to maintain social life.
(c) High morale societies.
(d) Customs.

11. Where don't laws apply?
(a) In other morality centers.
(b) In other cities.
(c) In communities not recognizing the laws.
(d) In other countries.

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

13. What do secondary rules apply to?
(a) Intent.
(b) To duties and obligations.
(c) Behavior control.
(d) To the physical world.

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

15. What are rules sometime understood as?
(a) Custom backed up by threats.
(b) Norms obeyed by a social group.
(c) Norms design to present social misconduct.
(d) Rules that have ben written.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some react to rules themselves?

2. What is rare for an individual to do in modern society?

3. Who does the populace trust to determine the specificity of the laws?

4. Which status is the closest to the Austin/coercive order model?

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

(see the answer keys)

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