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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 step in figuring out what law is according to Hart?
(a) What has confounded so many.
(b) What is law.
(c) Who are law created.
(d) How are law passed.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the question Hart tries to answer in the book according to Chapter 1?
(a) How is law formed.
(b) Who is the law.
(c) Who has the law.
(d) What is law.

8. What does attempting a single definition do to the fundamental elements of the law?
(a) Make them accessible.
(b) Make them applicable.
(c) Obscures them.
(d) Make them clear.

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

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

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

12. What is rare for an individual to do in modern society?
(a) Order someone to do something.
(b) Do something not covered by a law.
(c) Do something that is moral.
(d) Do something that is not illegal.

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

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

15. What is the price of Uniformity?
(a) Speed.
(b) Slowness.
(c) Distortion.
(d) Unreliability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do laws specify?

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

3. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?

4. Who makes the law created by past regimes binding, according to some philosophers?

5. What are rulings within the power of the legislatures?

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