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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What animal did the plague bacterium live in?
(a) Horses.
(b) Humans.
(c) Rats.
(d) Fleas.

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

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

8. What did Ogodei make the centerpiece of the palace?
(a) A giant chess-set.
(b) A series of lakes for waterfowl.
(c) A series of gold and silver wine vats.
(d) His throne.

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

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

11. "It is reported, but impossible to verify, that no ____ was censored during Khubilai's reign?"
(a) Book.
(b) Play.
(c) Work of art.
(d) Speech.

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

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

14. Which pope issued a papal bull in 1348, ordering the prosecution of the Jews to halt?
(a) Pope Pius VII.
(b) Pope Pius III.
(c) Pope Clement III.
(d) Pope Clement VI.

15. In 1272, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?
(a) A library to promote literacy.
(b) A public hospital for the Chinese.
(c) A Chinese-style imperial capital.
(d) An ancestral temple for his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Mongol prisoners were freed after their prison sentence, under Khubilai?

2. What became of Khanbalik, also known as Dadu?

3. Who penned the first known encyclopedia of natural history, in France?

4. What is a paiza?

5. What was the shared name of the three princes who commanded the Christian cities of the plain in 1223?

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