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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Mongols believe Friar Carpini brought to them?
(a) A message of war.
(b) Submission from the Pope.
(c) Information on Christianity and Jesus.
(d) Goods from Europe.

2. How many flights of stairs led to Ogodei's throne?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

3. The best we know, where did Black Death originate?
(a) South of China.
(b) Persia.
(c) India.
(d) Korea.

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

5. What is a she?
(a) A group of 1,000 nobility.
(b) A group of 100 nobility.
(c) A group of about 50,000 peasants.
(d) A group of about 200,000 peasants.

6. Where was the first khuriltai called after Guyuk died?
(a) The steppe.
(b) Lake Issykul.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Karakorum.

7. How many letters were in the alphabetic system that could write all the languages in the world?
(a) 73.
(b) 41.
(c) 52.
(d) 25.

8. How did Ogodei influence merchants to seek him out?
(a) Ogodei often paid twice as much as the asking price.
(b) Ogodei adopted many merchants into his family.
(c) Ogodei would punish the families of the merchants who didn't seek him out.
(d) Ogodei would kill merchants who didn't seek him out.

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

10. When did the Ottomans conquer Constantinople?
(a) 1353.
(b) 1453.
(c) 1543.
(d) 1443.

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

12. What did the Mongol women do while the men were on the battlefield?
(a) Drank with Ogodei.
(b) Kept the home.
(c) Managed the empire.
(d) Traveled with the men.

13. Which faith did Ogodei fail to build a house for?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Christian.
(d) Muslim.

14. Who wrote Decameron?
(a) Giovanni Boccaccio.
(b) Poggio Bracciolini.
(c) Cardinal Basilios Bessarion.
(d) Leon Battista Alberti.

15. How many tons of goods did the Mongols move in 1329?
(a) 210,000 tons.
(b) 327,000 tons.
(c) 100,000 tons.
(d) 150,000 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did the Mongols change the rank of a merchant?

2. What year did the assigned person present Khubilai with an alphabet that could write all the languages in the world?

3. Where did the Mongols discover the triangular plow?

4. How many priests did Khubilai request the Marco brothers send to the Mongol courts?

5. In an effort to improve the lives of farmers and their crops, Khubilai created what office in 1261?

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