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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. Who killed the grand councilor Li Si?
(a) His personal guards.
(b) Empress Xu.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) A eunuch.

2. In China, what was the class somewhat below that of the nobility that included soldiers or other meritorious commoners?
(a) Chou.
(b) Shi.
(c) Zhu.
(d) Tang.

3. When was the Byzantine army defeated at Baphaeon?
(a) 1302.
(b) 1326.
(c) 1402.
(d) 1358.

4. When did Clovis rule?
(a) 6th century.
(b) 8th century.
(c) 11th century.
(d) 7th century.

5. When did the Zhou dynasty split?
(a) 870 B.C.
(b) 770 B.C.
(c) 970 B.C.
(d) 570 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Emperor Wu rule?

2. When did the Berlin Wall fall?

3. How much of human and Chimpanzee DNA overlap?

4. What were the agnatic descent groups described by Fustel de Coulanges known as in Rome?

5. When did Maine spend time in India?

Short Essay Questions

1. What general assumption is made by the author in the Preface?

2. How did the Mamluks eventually disturb the nature of their relation to the state?

3. What does Fukuyama discuss about chimps?

4. What happened to the patrimonial aristocratic class according to Chapter 9?

5. What weakens and strengths the central state authority?

6. What philosophies does Fukuyama reference and who does he share views with in Chapter 2?

7. What does Fukayama outline in Chapter 1?

8. How could the Brahamic religion be described?

9. How was Europe different?

10. What did the emergence of the Han dynasty bring?

(see the answer keys)

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