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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What standard do we often try to employ, according to Hart?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Speed.
(c) Reasonableness.
(d) Efficiency.

2. How are international laws and morality tied?
(a) Though morale.
(b) In complex ways.
(c) Though customs.
(d) In Simple ways.

3. How many problems arise in studying international law?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. What are our legal standard, according to Hart?
(a) Indeterminate.
(b) Determinate.
(c) Imperfect.
(d) Good.

5. Who has significant objections in Hart's views?
(a) Rule skeptics.
(b) Goal skeptics.
(c) Law skeptics.
(d) Custom skeptics.

6. What are some skeptical of?
(a) Rich people being bound by law.
(b) Large enterprises being bound by law.
(c) People being bound by law.
(d) Nations being bound by law.

7. What does International law lack?
(a) Custom laws.
(b) Morale law.
(c) A common tribunal.
(d) Legislature and compulsory jurisdiction.

8. What is the risk of making someone authoritative?
(a) That secondary rtules would not apply. That person might lik epower.
(b) That person might be wrong.
(c) Authoritative people tend to be above the law.
(d) That person might change the law to her adventages.

9. How does Hart see international law until basic rules of recognition are formulated?
(a) As a transition system to secondary rules.
(b) As unbinding laws.
(c) As stepping stone toward a global law system.
(d) As undetermined laws.

10. What standard do we have by which to judge the law?
(a) Conducting suveys.
(b) Observing natural facts.
(c) Looking at crime statistics.
(d) Observing judge.

11. What does Hart say of legal positivism?
(a) It is the best option.
(b) It has some merits.
(c) It has no merits.
(d) It is better ignored.

12. What do moral offense seems to be?
(a) Short.
(b) Unvoluntary.
(c) Rare.
(d) Voluntary.

13. What are authoritative quality of general rules sometime qualified as?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Small.
(c) Exaggerated.
(d) Understated.

14. What do justice demand the promotion of?
(a) Equal justice for all.
(b) Common good.
(c) Good judge.
(d) A class of leaders.

15. What can the official sector be in conflict with?
(a) Lawmakers.
(b) Private sector.
(c) Customs.
(d) The people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do moral codes exist?

2. How many camps does Hart divide the question of legal laws resting on moral laws, according to Chapter 9?

3. How many conditions are necessary to have a legal system?

4. What is sometime given too much room to judges?

5. What does precedent focus on?

(see the answer keys)

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