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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did China fall from Mongol rule?
(a) 1388.
(b) 1358.
(c) 1368.
(d) 1378.

2. What year did the assigned person present Khubilai with an alphabet that could write all the languages in the world?
(a) 12775.
(b) 1269.
(c) 1271.
(d) 1264.

3. Who was Sorkhokhtani?
(a) The widow of Chaghatai and ruler of Asia and Turkestan.
(b) The ruler of Mongolia.
(c) The ruler of Persia.
(d) The widow of Tolui and ruler of northern China and eastern Mongolia.

4. What happened when Mongol prisoners were freed after their prison sentence, under Khubilai?
(a) They went on parole.
(b) Prisoners were always sentenced to death.
(c) More torture.
(d) They were banished.

5. What land did Guyuk wish to control and viewed as most important?
(a) India.
(b) Europe.
(c) Korea.
(d) Persia.

6. Who did Khubilai assign the task of creating a single alphabet that could be used to write all the languages in the world?
(a) Gyalwa Karmapa.
(b) Rinchen Zangpo.
(c) Lama Phagspa.
(d) Dromtonpa.

7. What year did Ogodei die?
(a) 1247.
(b) 1241.
(c) 1239.
(d) 1244.

8. Out of approximately 500 plays from the Yuan dynasty, how many survive today?
(a) 72.
(b) 300.
(c) 5.
(d) 160.

9. What percentage of the people living in the Hopei Province died in 1331?
(a) 15%
(b) 30%
(c) 60%
(d) 90%

10. What was the shared name of the three princes who commanded the Christian cities of the plain in 1223?
(a) Romanovitch.
(b) Konstantine.
(c) Ludvik.
(d) Mstislav.

11. Western scholars have designated the fourteenth century as what?
(a) The Golden Age of Europe.
(b) The Silken Era.
(c) The Pax Mongolica.
(d) The age of the Bubonic Terror.

12. How did Marco Polo describe the money in circulation under Khubilai?
(a) Silver bars.
(b) Dried leaves stamped with insignia.
(c) Mulberry bark in rectangular squares.
(d) Gold bullion.

13. Who was Columbus looking for when he sailed in 1492?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) The Native Americans.
(c) The Mongols.
(d) The Sung.

14. Who helped form the Mongol alliance with the Sung?
(a) Jebe.
(b) Ogodei.
(c) Karakorum.
(d) Subodei.

15. In an effort to improve the lives of farmers and their crops, Khubilai created what office in 1261?
(a) The Office for the Advancement of Farming.
(b) The Soil and Seed Foundation.
(c) The Office for the Stimulation of Agriculture.
(d) The Council for the Fertilization of Peat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Mongols believe Friar Carpini brought to them?

2. Which pope issued a papal bull in 1348, ordering the prosecution of the Jews to halt?

3. Whom did the Toregene want to push forward as the next Great Khan?

4. What year was Ogodei installed?

5. What did the Mongol women do while the men were on the battlefield?

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