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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is airak?
(a) The celebration dance performned by Sorkhokhtani.
(b) Fermented mare's milk.
(c) Mongolian perperation for cooking sheep.
(d) The special relationship between two Khan sons.

2. What year did Persia fall from the Mongol rule?
(a) 1315.
(b) 1345.
(c) 1335.
(d) 1325.

3. How did Guyuk die?
(a) Nobody knows.
(b) He was killed by his own torture methods.
(c) He was killed by a warring tribe.
(d) He was killed by Sorkhokhtani.

4. What happened to the consensual councils in China, after the Mongols were no longer in power?
(a) The Chinese changed the daily meetings, but kept consensus voting.
(b) They disappeared.
(c) They stayed exactly the same.
(d) The Chineese kept having daily meetings, but a councilor made all the decisions.

5. What type of fiber did Khubilai wish to promote by the creation of an aptly named Bureau in 1289?
(a) Silk.
(b) Paper.
(c) Acrylic.
(d) Cotton.

6. Who was ruler of the central steppe, during Khubilai's reign?
(a) Nanjing.
(b) Ogodei.
(c) Helegu.
(d) Khaidu.

7. What year is the earliest reported Mongol presence in the French court?
(a) 1254.
(b) 1249.
(c) 1236.
(d) 1247.

8. How many members of the Golden Family occupied the throne between the years of 1328 and 1332?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

9. Throughout the Renaissance the Mongols were generally treated with adulation. However, what time period opened up a distinct anti-Asian sentiment?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) The Mideival Ages.
(d) The Dark Ages.

10. When did Sokhokhtani die?
(a) February 1252.
(b) March 1250.
(c) October 1251.
(d) January 1253.

11. In what way did the Mongols change the rank of a merchant?
(a) Merchants were downgraded to criminals.
(b) Merchants were no better than prostitutes, the Mongols kept it that way.
(c) They elevated merchants second to only government officials.
(d) Merchants were elevated to the rank just below religious officials.

12. Who was the envoy appointed to meet King Edward the I of England?
(a) Mar Denha I.
(b) Isa Kelemechi.
(c) Rabban Bar Sawma
(d) Rabban Markos.

13. How far did the envoy travel to see King Edward the I of England?
(a) 9,000 kilometers.
(b) 7,000 miles.
(c) 14,000 kilometers
(d) 4,000 miles.

14. What happened if a Mongol, under Khubilai, declared bankruptcy more than two times?
(a) Mongols could not declare bankruptcy.
(b) The rack.
(c) Caning.
(d) Possible execution.

15. What was life in Xanadu, during 1332?
(a) Boisterous and energetic.
(b) Alarming and painful.
(c) Quiet and tranquil.
(d) Introspective and intellectual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal did the plague bacterium live in?

2. How many letters were in the alphabetic system that could write all the languages in the world?

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

4. What was Kerchagan?

5. What is khubi?

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