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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who makes the law created by past regimes binding, according to some philosophers?
(a) The police force.
(b) The current authority.
(c) Custom.
(d) The force of habit.

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

3. What do constitutions specify?
(a) Who is in allow to take power.
(b) The basic laws of the land.
(c) The domains over which sovereign power may exercised.
(d) Who can change the law and why.

4. When do rules obligate?
(a) When demand for conformity is insistent.
(b) When morale codes are not enough.
(c) When society organises itself.
(d) When customs failed.

5. What do the law of torts specify the conditions of?
(a) Compensation for harms produced by the one own actions.
(b) Compensation for harms produced by the actions of a few people.
(c) Compensation for harms produced by the society as a whole.
(d) Compensation for harms produced by the actions of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do laws regulate in advance?

2. What is the first step in figuring out what law is according to Hart?

3. How does Hart qualifies most statements made about law by great minds?

4. What are customary society's rules unable to do?

5. What does attempting a single definition do to the fundamental elements of the law?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can the definition of law help provide?

2. What will happen if we examine the many types of law according to Chapter 3?

3. What are secondary rules?

4. What did customary societies have?

5. Why is social pressure serious?

6. What are understood as norms?

7. How do we speak of justice?

8. What did secondary rules confer?

9. What is law?

10. What did Hart want to explain?

(see the answer keys)

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