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

2. What is sometime given too much room to judges?
(a) Rules.
(b) Time.
(c) Discretion.
(d) Freedom.

3. What will always conflict, according to Hart?
(a) Rules and goals.
(b) Customs and laws.
(c) Laws and goals.
(d) Rules and laws.

4. When does the second question arisen by Hart's theory appear?
(a) When we analyze the idea that a custom can not be said to exist.
(b) When we analyze the idea that acustom can be said to exist.
(c) When we analyze the idea that a legal system can be said not to exist.
(d) When we analyze the idea that a legal system can be said to exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the legal standards impose when some are helpless victims of the law?

2. What is deeply embedded within humanity?

3. What are the ultimate rules?

4. What are authoritative quality of general rules sometime qualified as?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the boundaries left up to?

2. What does the minimum content view do away with?

3. What do positivists tend to see natural law as?

4. What does legislation tend to focus on according to Chapter 7?

5. What does legal positivism hold according to Chapter 9?

6. What is morality not enforced with?

7. What are the six connections between law and morality?

8. What does justice demand the promotion of?

9. What does Chapter 8 inquire into the relationship between?

10. What do we often equate the legal system with?

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