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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the advantage of having judges that can render final judgments?
(a) Competency.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Reliability.
(d) Speed.

2. What do natural laws assume men have a limited amount of?
(a) Love.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Altruism.

3. What happens when secondary rules are accepted, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Societies have authoritative methods to change morale.
(b) Societies have authoritative methods to determine what law is.
(c) Societies have authoritative methods to determine what custom is.
(d) Societies have authoritative methods to change laws.

4. What are laws usually obeyed to?
(a) A fault.
(b) The spirit of the law.
(c) The letter.
(d) A degree.

5. What do we make relative to the interpretation of rules?
(a) Choice based on Primary or Secondary laws.
(b) Arbitrary selection.
(c) Choice about morale.
(d) Specific choises.

6. What does International law threatens according to Chapter 10?
(a) Smaller countries.
(b) The account of law previously developed.
(c) Local judges.
(d) National independence.

7. What does the law need not be determined by?
(a) The meaning of the words.
(b) Elected officials.
(c) Independent lawmakers.
(d) Judges.

8. What can statement of law made as?
(a) Simple or complexe.
(b) Low or high.
(c) Internal or external statement.
(d) Singular or multiple.

9. What is used to blame people who offend on morality?
(a) Fines.
(b) Prison.
(c) Ostracism.
(d) Physical pain.

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

11. What do rule-skepticism and formalism often do according to Hart?
(a) Co write artciles.
(b) Supplement each other.
(c) Contradict each other.
(d) Fight each other.

12. What are the general rules, standards and principles according to Chapter 7?
(a) The primary force of human control.
(b) The primary force of social control.
(c) The secondary force of human control.
(d) The secondary force of social control.

13. What is deeply embedded within humanity?
(a) Hope.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Morality.
(d) Principle of equality.

14. Why does Austin claim international law is not binding?
(a) Because the U.N is powerless.
(b) Because small countries are not well represented.
(c) Because large countries can do what they want.
(d) Because it has no organized sanction.

15. What do positivists tend to see natural laws?
(a) As build on sand.
(b) As built on morale.
(c) As built on fallacy.
(d) As build on concrete laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When may a society acquire a system of supremacy of rules?

3. How many problems arise in studying international law?

4. What do justice largely concern itself with?

5. What cannot be given for everything?

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