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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first difficult thing about law?
(a) Determine why laws are in place.
(b) Determine who make the law.
(c) Determine why laws are accepted.
(d) To determine whether something is law.

2. What will the use of rules in primitive society bar?
(a) Free use of violence.
(b) Behavior that could harm society.
(c) Behavior that could harm the person who does it.
(d) Unmoral bahavior.

3. Where do many laws originate from?
(a) Custom.
(b) Morale.
(c) Precedents.
(d) Religion.

4. What are rules typically regarded as?
(a) Universal.
(b) Illegitimate.
(c) Legitimate.
(d) Unavailable.

5. How does Hart qualifies most statements made about law by great minds?
(a) Untrue.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) True and deeply puzzling.
(d) Vague.

6. What is in a sense general?
(a) Legal reach.
(b) Legal interpretation.
(c) Legal control.
(d) Legal retribution.

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

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

9. What becomes guides for claims, demands and the like?
(a) The rules from an external 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 internal point of view.

10. What example does Hart give about non optional conduct that are not law?
(a) School.
(b) Customs.
(c) Game rules.
(d) Moral rules.

11. What aren't laws themselves?
(a) Optional.
(b) Coerce.
(c) Commands.
(d) Suggestions.

12. When do rules obligate?
(a) When morale codes are not enough.
(b) When society organises itself.
(c) When customs failed.
(d) When demand for conformity is insistent.

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

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

15. What would breaking the rule allow some individual to do?
(a) Help them.
(b) Get them into prison.
(c) Improve society.
(d) Allow for better laws to be created.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are customary society's rules unable to do?

4. What are laws?

5. What is a common myth about laws?

(see the answer keys)

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