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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Mongol soldiers forbidden to speak about?
(a) Death.
(b) Cohesion.
(c) Sharing.
(d) Comprimise.

2. How were orders transmitted through the ranks?
(a) Orally.
(b) Orders were written.
(c) Written and in rhyme.
(d) Orally and in rhyme.

3. How did the Mongol army kill, during battle?
(a) Maiming.
(b) Policy.
(c) Torture.
(d) Mutiltion.

4. As a child, what was Genghis Khan afraid of?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Heights.
(c) The dark.
(d) Snakes.

5. Under the kinship hierarchy, what is each linage known by?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Spirit banners.
(c) Hair.
(d) Bones.

6. What kind of education did Genghis Khan receive?
(a) Genghis Khan went to school as an adult, to catch up.
(b) Genghis Khan took a few years of classes in his village.
(c) He traveled to learn from a teacher when he was a teenager.
(d) He recieved no formal education.

7. What year did the Jurched claim a new Golden Khan and demand the submission of Genghis Khan?
(a) 1200.
(b) 1215.
(c) 1206.
(d) 1210.

8. Whom did Temujin ask for help, after the kidnapping of Borte?
(a) The Merkid.
(b) Jamuka.
(c) Mongke.
(d) Ong Khan.

9. Resulting from this third vow of brotherhood with Jamuka, what did Temujin need to learn how to do?
(a) Nothing, Temujin's way of life was just the same as before.
(b) Overpower Jamuka's followers.
(c) Learn the ways of a hunter.
(d) Learn the ways of a herder.

10. In the Khuriltai, Genghis Khan called to discuss his succession. Who was the first son invited to speak after Genghis Khan?
(a) Ogodei.
(b) Jochi.
(c) Tolui.
(d) Chaghatai.

11. What was Ong Khan doing as Temujin attacked him?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Preparing for battle.
(c) Feasting.
(d) Standing guard.

12. What is naadam?
(a) The traditional way of throat-singing of the Mongols.
(b) The traditional food of the Mongols.
(c) The traditional songs of the Mongols.
(d) The traditional games of the Mongols.

13. What year did Temujin call the khuriltai that was to be "the most important ever in steppe history?"
(a) 1205.
(b) 1208.
(c) 1206.
(d) 1200.

14. Which profession had to pay taxes under Genghis Khan?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Priests.
(d) Merchants.

15. After his third vow of brotherhood with Jamuka, what did Temujin do?
(a) Make an alliance with Jamuka, but remain in the mountains.
(b) Immediately overthrew Jamuka.
(c) Took one of Jamuka's wives as his own.
(d) Merge his family with Jamuka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unit made up the entire Mongol army?

2. Who killed Genghis Khan's older half-brother?

3. Which of the following was not a torture technique used by the famous Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa?

4. Who wrote "Kamil fi at-tarikh," also known as "The Complete History" or "The Perfect History?"

5. What does a Spirit Banner proclaim?

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