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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Gregory VII do to the Roman Emperor Henry IV?
(a) He gave him Italy as a gift.
(b) He married him.
(c) He excommunicated him.
(d) He orderd his assassination.

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

4. When was the Duma reinstated after Peter the Great?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1924.

5. What is the second of three components of political development that together constitute modern politics?
(a) The rule of the land.
(b) The law of the land.
(c) The rule of law.
(d) The code of law.

6. What is kanunname derived from?
(a) French law.
(b) Roman law.
(c) Canon law
(d) Papal law.

7. When did the French revolution take place?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1789.

8. When was "Political Order in Changing Societies" published according to Chapter 30?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1958.

9. When did Cortes begin his conquest of Mexico?
(a) 1567.
(b) 1519.
(c) 1589.
(d) 1524.

10. When did the Iranian Islamist revolution take place?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.

11. When did Warren Hastings decide to apply the Dharmasastra to the Hindus, Islamic law to the Muslims, and some version of English "Justice, Equity, and Good Conscience" to all other cases?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1774.

12. 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"?
(a) 1563.
(b) 1567.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1456.

13. When did the Catholic Church declare its independence from secular authorities?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 11th century.
(c) 13th century.
(d) 12th century.

14. What was the German state that emerged in Brandenburg-Prussia in the eighteenth century based on?
(a) Connection based bureaucracy.
(b) Filial based bureaucracy.
(c) Wealth based bureaucracy.
(d) Merit based bureaucracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the impersonal bureaucracy of the Han Dynasty eroded by?

2. What countries were examples of weak absolutism and failed accountability, according to Chapter 25?

3. How much land did the Catholic Church own in Denmark in 1536?

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

5. What age didn't Qin pass though concerning army management?

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