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

2. Who called the first khuriltai after Guyuk died?
(a) Batu Khan.
(b) Oghul Ghaimish.
(c) Mongke.
(d) Sorhokhtani.

3. Who was the first person Guyuk attacked, in 1246, as a display of his power as khan?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Toregene.
(c) Friar Carpini.
(d) Sorkhokhtani.

4. What was Kerchagan?
(a) The name of the plan to overthrow Ogodei.
(b) Ogodei's store of wine.
(c) Ogodei's private residence for his family.
(d) The name of Ogodei's horse.

5. Whom did the Toregene want to push forward as the next Great Khan?
(a) Tajik.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Herself.
(d) Guyuk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many schools are recorded as being created during the reign of Khubilai Khan?

2. What gem was most admired by the Mongol peoples?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After the Mongols destroyed the Hungarian army, they were able to probe Vienna. Though scared, some Hapsburg troops captured a Mongol officer. What was strange about him?

2. What was special about the mare's milk for Khubilai and his court?

3. What do "generous scholars" attribute to Khubilai's frequent delays during the war with the Sung?

4. What was the first book written in English, and what did it say about Genghis Khan?

5. What was superior about the Chinese paper over the parchment made by Europeans?

6. What happened to the slaves sold to the Italians by the Mongols? Where did they come from and what would they do in a short twenty years?

7. What geographically hindered the Mongols from full victory in Europe?

8. What three inventions did Francis Bacon recognize as the foundation of modern world? Why is this important?

9. How did Matthew Paris link the Mongols to the Jewish people?

10. How did the Mongols adapt the Chinese printing practices?

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