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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. What does the distinction make sense of, according to Hart?
(a) Many difficulties previously unsolved.
(b) How law should work.
(c) How moral is structured.
(d) How custom is structured.

2. What are laws supreme in?
(a) The world.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Their territory.
(d) Inferior lands.

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

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

5. What do rules requires a critical reflective attitude about?
(a) Whom they apply to.
(b) Who enforces them.
(c) Patterns of behavior.
(d) Laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common myth about laws?

2. What example does Hart give about non optional conduct that are not law?

3. What could we rest with according to Hart?

4. What are rulings within the power of the legislatures?

5. What are laws?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the concept of law hard, according to Chapter 1?

2. What is the habit of obedience understood to apply to?

3. What did Hart want to advance?

4. What do laws require?

5. What is rare for individuals in modern societies?

6. What can the definition of law help provide?

7. What are understood as norms?

8. What do judges have powers to do?

9. What did Hart want to explain?

10. What are primary rules according to Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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