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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do people in favelas not invest in their homes?
(a) The police always destroy improvements.
(b) They do not own them.
(c) They cannot take loans.
(d) The drug lords won't allow it.

2. What did Pollock and Maitland write about the king?
(a) That he was not above the law.
(b) That he was not allowed to pass laws.
(c) That he was not the law.
(d) That he would not bow to the law.

3. What did Hayek say is not the result of top-down rational planning?
(a) Tribalism.
(b) Social order.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Agriculture.

4. When was the Table of Ranks put in place in Russia?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1722.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1743

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

6. How much land did the Catholic Church own in Denmark in 1536?
(a) 60%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 50%.

7. What corresponds to what is now called positive law according to Chapter 17?
(a) Totalitarism.
(b) Legislation.
(c) Fundamentalism.
(d) Liberatism.

8. When did the major powers face growing demands for military expenditures?
(a) 13th century on.
(b) 15th century on.
(c) 12th century on.
(d) 14th century on.

9. When was Constantinople taken by the Turks?
(a) 1469.
(b) 1453.
(c) 1235.
(d) 1569

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

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

12. What was the population of China at the start of the Ming Dynasty?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 60 million.
(c) 160 million.
(d) 260 million.

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

14. 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?
(a) $50.
(b) $20.
(c) $19.
(d) $150.

15. When was "The Wealth of Nations" written in relation to Marx?
(a) 55 years before.
(b) 75 years before.
(c) 45 years before.
(d) 65 years before.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was an examination system put back in place in China?

2. When did Mátyás Hunyadi die?

3. When did the Catholic church upheld the right of women to inherit property?

4. When did Napoleon win at Jena-Auerstadt?

5. When did the Iranian Islamist revolution take place?

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