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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the populace trust to determine the specificity of the laws?
(a) Congress.
(b) Certain bodies such as courts.
(c) Police.
(d) Vigilanties.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do Rules of continuity give future individuals the right to?
(a) Ignore the law.
(b) Change laws.
(c) A fair trial.
(d) Assume the same power.

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

10. How do some react to rules themselves?
(a) With joy.
(b) With disdain.
(c) With skepticism.
(d) With sadness.

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

12. What is the concept of law according to Hart?
(a) Only understood by scholars.
(b) Vague.
(c) Hard to analyze.
(d) Easy to understand.

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

14. How many questions did Hart identified that combine into the question of what law is?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

15. How would a man keep law from applying to him, according to Austin?
(a) By making changes to the law.
(b) By ignoring it.
(c) By being rich.
(d) Keep the probability of punishment low.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first question Hart identified?

2. How can laws of judicial practice and other like it be understood as?

3. That do the nullity as sanction view try to produce?

4. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?

5. What would breaking the rule do to society?

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