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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are 'real' rules, according to Hart?
(a) Those descending from morale.
(b) Those society agree must apply to all.
(c) Those society believe must be obeyed.
(d) Those created by elected officials.

2. What is a common myth about laws?
(a) That they are fair.
(b) That they are written with the public's best interest in mind.
(c) That they are easy to understand.
(d) That they are all public.

3. What will the use of rules in primitive society bar?
(a) Free use of violence.
(b) Unmoral bahavior.
(c) Behavior that could harm society.
(d) Behavior that could harm the person who does it.

4. What is law?
(a) Morale based rules.
(b) A general order backed by threats.
(c) A set of loose rules.
(d) How to behave around other people.

5. What do Rules of continuity give future individuals the right to?
(a) Ignore the law.
(b) Change laws.
(c) Assume the same power.
(d) A fair trial.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do some react to rules themselves?

3. What is related to law according to Hart?

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

5. What do Hart say of making sense of authority in term of sovereign people?

(see the answer key)

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