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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Laws and Morals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do secondary rules track?
(a) The internal aspect.
(b) The simple aspect.
(c) The multiple aspect.
(d) The external aspect.

2. What are not always Rules of recognition?
(a) External statements.
(b) Morale.
(c) Customs.
(d) Laws.

3. Which status is the closest to the Austin/coercive order model?
(a) Penal status.
(b) Civil statutes.
(c) Secondary status.
(d) Primary status.

4. What do rules do?
(a) Allow behaviors that are not forbidden.
(b) Allow law makers to make laws.
(c) Allow a community to live in peace.
(d) Forbid certain type of behavior under penalty.

5. What are rules sometime understood as?
(a) Norms design to present social misconduct.
(b) Rules that have ben written.
(c) Norms obeyed by a social group.
(d) Custom backed up by threats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the advantage of having judges that can render final judgments?

2. How would a man keep law from applying to him, according to Austin?

3. What do judges do when they state that a law is valid?

4. What do constitutions specify?

5. What do positivists tend to see natural laws?

(see the answer key)

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