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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality" published according to chapter 3?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1755.

2. Who was Seymour Martin?
(a) A sociologist.
(b) An anthropologist.
(c) An historian.
(d) An economist.

3. What society is still a hunter-gatherer society?
(a) Eskimos
(b) The Roman Empire.
(c) Pre-Independence America.
(d) Medieval France.

4. How may countries were considered free by the Freedom House in 1973, according to Chapter 1?
(a) 46.
(b) 43.
(c) 45.
(d) 41.

5. What is a socially and biologically grounded reality for human being?
(a) Nepotism.
(b) Despostism.
(c) Equality.
(d) Liberalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land remained privately owned in the USSR?

2. When was "Ancient Law" by Henry Maine published?

3. When did the Berlin Wall fall?

4. How many countries of the third wave of democratization reverted to authoritarianism or saw a significant erosion of democratic institutions?

5. What were the agnatic descent groups described by Fustel de Coulanges known as in Rome?

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