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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1524.
(b) 1526.
(c) 1571.
(d) 1589.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Philip II issue the law that stated "no impositions, contributions, or other taxes are to be imposed on the whole Kingdom without the Cortes being summoned and without their being granted by the procuradores"?

2. When did Louis XIV die?

3. When did the Republic of China move to Taiwan according to Chapter 20?

4. What did Pollock and Maitland write about the king?

5. What did Hayek say is not the result of top-down rational planning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened between the Christian church and political authorities in Europe according to Chapter 18?

2. What is the first question that Fukuyama asks about political development in Chapter 30?

3. What did Russia not share with the Ottomans according to Chapter 26?

4. How does Fukuyama define accountability in Chapter 22?

5. What happened in the final years of the French monarchy according to Chapter 23?

6. What was the second question that Fukuyama addresses?

7. What are four differing results relating to accountability?

8. What tips a state towards accountability according to Chapter 28?

9. Why is Latin America unique according to Chapter 24?

10. What did Pope Gregory VII do in 1073?

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