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Weekly Quiz - 2/9/00

1. Draco's law code was known for which type of punishments?
Criminal reform
Death penalty
Lex Talionis
Pecuniary compensation

2. Which is the area from which we have the earliest written laws
Babylonia
Hittites
Israel
Sumer/Akkad

3. Lex Talionis refers to
Apodictic law
Criminal reform
Eye for an eye
Pecuniary compensation

4. Hammurabi was king of
Assyria
Babylonia
Hittites
Persia

5. "Thou shalt not kill" is an example of
Apodictic law
Casuistic law
Pecuniary compensation
Retributive justice

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