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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the latifundia in agrarian societies say?
(a) Rich will trickle down money.
(b) The rich get richer unless stopped.
(c) Serfs are expandable.
(d) The peasants are bound to take power.

2. What was Ohn Hajna's occupation?
(a) Demographer.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Economist.
(d) Historian.

3. When did the Communists claim victory in China?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1949.

4. What was the Bahri regiment named after?
(a) A god.
(b) A king.
(c) A lake.
(d) A fortress.

5. How many countries of the third wave of democratization reverted to authoritarianism or saw a significant erosion of democratic institutions?
(a) 2 in 7.
(b) 1 in 5.
(c) 1 in 3.
(d) 1 in 10.

6. When did iron start being used commonly in China?
(a) 900 B.C.
(b) 700 B.C.
(c) 800 B.C.
(d) 600 B.C.

7. Where was the Chimpanzee Puist kept?
(a) Arnhem Zoo.
(b) London Zoo.
(c) Monaco Zoo.
(d) San Diego Zoo.

8. How much of the productive land in France was in ecclesiastical hands in the 7th century?
(a) A fifth.
(b) Half.
(c) A third.
(d) A fourth.

9. When was a proposal put forward to limit estates to three thousand mou in China?
(a) 5 B.C.
(b) 7 B.C.
(c) 12 B.C.
(d) 9 B.C.

10. How much did grain prices in Anatolia in constant silver units rose by between 1489 to 1616?
(a) 400%.
(b) 500%.
(c) 600%.
(d) 200%.

11. How long did the sultanate last in India?
(a) 340 years.
(b) 320 years.
(c) 310 years.
(d) 350 years.

12. What happened in 173, 179 and 182 in China?
(a) Epidemics.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Floods.
(d) Wars.

13. When was "Ancient Law" by Henry Maine published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

14. Who said "I conceive that land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living and countless members are still unborn"?
(a) An Ivory Coast chief.
(b) A Somalian chief.
(c) A Nigerian chief.
(d) A New Guinean chief.

15. How many families were relocated by the Qin Dynasty?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 130,000.
(d) 50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued that a just city had to exist in conformity with man's permanent nature and not what was ephemeral and changing according to Chapter 2?

2. How long did the Tang Dynasty last?

3. When did Sultan Barquq come to power?

4. When did Caliph al-Mahdi rise to power?

5. When was "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality" published according to chapter 3?

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