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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the reliance on imported goods reflect in feudal Europe?
(a) A failure at home.
(b) Early shopoholoicism.
(c) Exotic tastes.
(d) Total normalcy.

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

4. Who penned the first known encyclopedia of natural history, in France?
(a) Comte de Buffon.
(b) Andrea Cesalpino.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(d) Carolus Linnaeus.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

13. What gem was most admired by the Mongol peoples?
(a) Rubys.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Pearls.
(d) Sapphires.

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

15. As the Mongols' position in power began to crumble, mostly due to the lack of trade, what religion was favored by the Mongols?
(a) Shamanism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Islam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Mongols discover the triangular plow?

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

3. What year was Ogodei installed?

4. What happened to the consensual councils in China, after the Mongols were no longer in power?

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

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