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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What are 'real' rules, according to Hart?
(a) Those descending from morale.
(b) Those society believe must be obeyed.
(c) Those society agree must apply to all.
(d) Those created by elected officials.

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

6. Who wrote Province of Jurisprudence Determined?
(a) Robertson.
(b) Yokhoama.
(c) Austin.
(d) York.

7. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?
(a) The letter of the law.
(b) The spirit of the law.
(c) Morality.
(d) Duties.

8. How does Hart name the ones that create the law in Chapter 4?
(a) Sovereigns.
(b) Lawmakers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Judges.

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

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

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

12. What does the law make human conduct?
(a) Natural.
(b) Typical.
(c) Obligatory.
(d) Moral.

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

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

15. What do Hart say of making sense of authority in term of sovereign people?
(a) It is necessary.
(b) It is problematic.
(c) It is stable.
(d) It is easy to understand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many categories do objections fall into?

3. What makes social pressure serious?

4. What do laws require exist?

5. What will the use of rules in primitive society bar?

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