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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What led Emperor Chengu to cancel long distance voyages?
(a) Self satisfaction.
(b) Fear of god.
(c) High expensive.
(d) Lack of political gain.

2. How many serfs did Count N. P. Sheremetov own?
(a) 175,610.
(b) 18,610.
(c) 185,100.
(d) 185,610.

3. When was the Concordat of Worms enacted ?
(a) 1125.
(b) 1265.
(c) 1122
(d) 1325.

4. What was the impersonal bureaucracy of the Han Dynasty eroded by?
(a) High cost.
(b) Invasion.
(c) Lack of applicants.
(d) Aristocratic families.

5. When did Peter the Great die?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1752.
(c) 1766.
(d) 1725.

6. What country has become what some political scientists label an "electoral authoritarian" regime according to Chapter 26?
(a) Britain.
(b) The Russian Federation.
(c) Japan.
(d) Liberia.

7. What was the highly sophisticated compilation of Roman law produced in Constantinople under at the beginning of the sixth century named?
(a) The Justinian Code.
(b) The Contantinople Code.
(c) The Imperial Code.
(d) The Roman Code.

8. Who are not formally accountable to their people except through a parliament with very limited powers, but have been careful to attend to the demands of the various groups that make up the country?
(a) Jordan Kings.
(b) Syrian leaders.
(c) Lybian leaders.
(d) Iran leaders.

9. When did Louis XIV die?
(a) 1715.
(b) 1705.
(c) 1725.
(d) 1735.

10. What are the Shastras according to Chapter 19?
(a) The first law.
(b) The bad law.
(c) God's spoken words.
(d) The law for the men.

11. When did Mátyás Hunyadi die?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1569.
(c) 1490.
(d) 1423.

12. When did Napoleon win at Jena-Auerstadt?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1806.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1802.

13. When did King Bela III die?
(a) 1203.
(b) 1196.
(c) 1159.
(d) 1240.

14. When did the Seigneurial courts lose their power in England?
(a) 1400.
(b) 1500.
(c) 1300.
(d) 1200.

15. When did Constantine convert to Christianity according to Chapter 18?
(a) 369.
(b) 254.
(c) 313.
(d) 323

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Supreme Court rule on the Lochner v. New York case?

2. When did the Iranian Islamist revolution take place?

3. What is kanunname derived from?

4. How much was the per capita spending on all government services, from armies and roads to schools and police on the street in Afghanistan in 2008?

5. When did the Russian aristocrats have their service obligation abolished?

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