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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What is law?
(a) Morale based rules.
(b) How to behave around other people.
(c) A set of loose rules.
(d) A general order backed by threats.

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

6. What do laws specify?
(a) What the penalty is for over stopping it.
(b) What is allowed and forbidden.
(c) Who may coerce and when.
(d) Whom they apply to.

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

8. How can laws be divided?
(a) Five sub section rules.
(b) Categories based on the type of offense.
(c) Collective and individual rules.
(d) Primary and secondary rules.

9. What are imperatives backed by?
(a) Rules.
(b) Rewards.
(c) Laws.
(d) Coercion.

10. That do the nullity as sanction view try to produce?
(a) A general definition of judge.
(b) A general definition of law.
(c) A general definition of Custom.
(d) A general definition of rule.

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

12. What are some primitive society rules by?
(a) Moral.
(b) Laws.
(c) Rules.
(d) Customs.

13. What do many not realize habits are?
(a) Changing.
(b) Changeable.
(c) Observable.
(d) Unavoidable.

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

15. How are laws obeyed?
(a) Usually.
(b) Characteristically.
(c) Barely.
(d) Fully.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first question Hart identified?

3. What do the law of torts specify the conditions of?

4. How do some react to rules themselves?

5. What are habits?

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