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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did the family of Genghis Khan take around the summer of 1229?
(a) The Giant Family.
(b) The Generous Family.
(c) The Golden Family.
(d) The Great Family.

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

3. By 1235, what was the most notable thing Ogodei had accomplished?
(a) Increasing the literacy rate of his people.
(b) Standardize a health code.
(c) Squandering the majority of his father's wealth.
(d) Properly fund public hospitals.

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

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

6. What land did Subodei wish to invade, when he was about sixty?
(a) Persia.
(b) China.
(c) Europe.
(d) India.

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

8. 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.

9. How many criminals were executed during the three decades of Khubilai's rule?
(a) Less than 2,500.
(b) More than 3,000.
(c) Less than 1,500.
(d) More than 3,500.

10. In 1263, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?
(a) A library to promote literacy.
(b) An ancestral temple for his family.
(c) A public hospital for the Chinese.
(d) A courthouse to uphold Chinese law.

11. Who ruled the Moghuls from 1556 until 1608, the zenith of that empire?
(a) Akbar.
(b) Miran Shah.
(c) Sihon.
(d) Hongwu.

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

13. As the Mongol empire began to fall down, who in central Asia claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan?
(a) Enkhe Khan.
(b) Emir Timur.
(c) Sayyid Barakah.
(d) Khan Züdei.

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

15. What is a paiza?
(a) A tablet worn on a chain that identified the level of a traveler.
(b) An article of clothing incorporated from the Chinese culture.
(c) The type of saddle merchants used for their mounts.
(d) A brand of drink popular with Khubilai.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Shiremun?

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

4. Who called the first khuriltai after Guyuk died?

5. How did the Mongols traditionally begin and measure construction?

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