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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were orders transmitted through the ranks?
(a) Written and in rhyme.
(b) Orders were written.
(c) Orally and in rhyme.
(d) Orally.

2. In the year 1203, Temujin wished to resolve his rivalry with Jamuka and clarify his position with Ong Khan by what means?
(a) Temujin asked Ong Khan to have the khan's daughter marry Temujin's son, Jochi.
(b) Temujin offered one of his daughters to Ong Khan as a wife.
(c) Temujin gave Ong Khan a beautiful sable fur.
(d) Temujin asked Ong Khan to marry one of his daughters.

3. As a compromise, who was named successor to Genghis Khan?
(a) Ogodei.
(b) Jochi.
(c) Tolui.
(d) Chaghatai.

4. Genghis Khan attempted to repair the breech between Jochi and Chagahatai by assigning them to a campaign against which city?
(a) Urgench.
(b) Nukus.
(c) Mangit.
(d) Herat.

5. Which of the following was not a torture technique used by the famous Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa?
(a) Putting children in catapults.
(b) Pulling limbs off prisoners in front of their comrades.
(c) Waterboarding.
(d) Soldiers playing with severed heads like balls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Genghis Khan die?

2. How did the Mongol army kill, during battle?

3. What was the name Temujin chose for himself, after this important khuriltai?

4. What was Ong Khan doing as Temujin attacked him?

5. When Genghis Khan finally descended upon Khwarizm, how many Mongols did he have in his command?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who dressed Genghis Khan after he passed, and how was his funeral handled?

2. What did Jamuka offer Temujin in death?

3. What happened in the winter of 1226 - 1227 when Genghis Khan stopped on his way across the Gobi to hunt wild horses?

4. What revenge tactic did Jmauka employ that severely harmed his image after one of Tejumin's followers murdered one of Jamuka's kinsmen?

5. How did Genghis Khan's men prepare for the great hunting celebration during the winter of 1222 - 1223? How did they gather the animals together?

6. Describe the Ikh Khorig.

7. What is group responsibility and group guilt?

8. What happened as soon as the Mongols withdrew from the newly conquered Jurched territory?

9. What made Temujin turn to Mount Burkhan Khaldun in prayer?

10. What was the most distinctive thing about Genghis Khan's Great Law, particularly in contrast with western European monarchs?

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