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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Khubilai change his name to in 1264?
(a) Khubilai Khan.
(b) Zhiyuan, or Chih-yuan.
(c) The Great Khan.
(d) Arik Boke.

4. What year was Ogodei installed?
(a) 1230.
(b) 1240.
(c) 1235.
(d) 1232.

5. Who was Shiremun?
(a) Ogodei's favorite grandson.
(b) Ogodei's favorite son.
(c) Ogodei's biggest rival.
(d) Ogodei's biggest critic.

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

7. In an effort to improve the lives of farmers and their crops, Khubilai created what office in 1261?
(a) The Council for the Fertilization of Peat.
(b) The Office for the Stimulation of Agriculture.
(c) The Office for the Advancement of Farming.
(d) The Soil and Seed Foundation.

8. What happened when Mongol prisoners were freed after their prison sentence, under Khubilai?
(a) Prisoners were always sentenced to death.
(b) They went on parole.
(c) They were banished.
(d) More torture.

9. Where did Hulegu rule during Khubilai's reign?
(a) Modern-day Nepal.
(b) Modern-day Kyrgystan.
(c) Ilkhanate.
(d) India.

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

11. Where did Khubilai send the heir of the Sung dynasty to study, so he would not rebel?
(a) Japan.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Tibet.
(d) India.

12. The Ming briefly moved the capital city of China to what place?
(a) Lanzhou.
(b) Kunming.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Nanjing.

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

14. What is khubi?
(a) A minature form of Khubilai.
(b) A share in the goods siezed from war.
(c) A rectangular block, used for coloring.
(d) A small, cozy nook.

15. Who were the Kipchak?
(a) Indian shaman.
(b) Chineese warriors.
(c) Persian monks.
(d) Turkic tribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a she?

2. Who called the first khuriltai after Guyuk died?

3. As the Mongol empire began to fall down, who in central Asia claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan?

4. How did Jebe and Subodei lead the raid into Georgia?

5. What land did Subodei wish to invade, when he was about sixty?

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