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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hart qualifies Province of Jurisprudence Determined, according to Chapter 2?
(a) As an effort to change the law.
(b) As the most serious attempt to analyze the concept of law.
(c) As a bad attempt to analyze law.
(d) As an attempt to prevent laws from applying.

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

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

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

6. What do rules do?
(a) Allow law makers to make laws.
(b) Forbid certain type of behavior under penalty.
(c) Allow a community to live in peace.
(d) Allow behaviors that are not forbidden.

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

8. What is law not understood as, according to the author of Province of Jurisprudence Determined?
(a) As command.
(b) A suggestion.
(c) As constance.
(d) As request or warning.

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

10. What are laws?
(a) Standing orders.
(b) Moral imperatives.
(c) Optional rules.
(d) Written customs.

11. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?
(a) Applicable.
(b) Long.
(c) Detailed.
(d) Comprehensive.

12. What are rulings within the power of the legislatures?
(a) Customs.
(b) Rules.
(c) Laws.
(d) Morale.

13. 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.

14. What aren't obligations, according to Austin and others?
(a) Typical.
(b) Natural.
(c) Obligatory.
(d) Binding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the law make human conduct?

2. What makes social pressure serious?

3. What do laws regulate in advance?

4. What do the first type of rules do?

5. What are some primitive society rules by?

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