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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Confucians and Curiosities.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did the Mongols invade in 1274?
(a) China.
(b) Persia.
(c) Japan.
(d) The Phillipines.

2. How did Confucius refer to China?
(a) The Middle Kingdom.
(b) The Rising Sun Empire.
(c) The Never Ending Kingdom.
(d) The Greatest Empire.

3. Why did the Yi turn to the sea for their subsistence?
(a) The ground was too frozen to cultivate.
(b) They knew how to make boats.
(c) They didn't have land to cultivate.
(d) They liked fish.

4. What did the first boat people cross, according to "Chapter 1, The Yi Peoples"?
(a) The water between China and Taiwan.
(b) The Yellow River.
(c) The water between Java and Sulawesi.
(d) The Yangtze.

5. What does archeological evidence indicate about the Yi people?
(a) They used tar.
(b) They traveled as far as New Guinea and Australia.
(c) They didn't know bronze.
(d) They sacrificed women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Marco Polo say was "greater than any city"?

2. What did Confucius say about contact with foreigners?

3. Who described the existence of ships similar to those of the early Chinese seafarer in South America?

4. When did the Song Dynasty rule China?

5. What dynasty made Confucianism the basis of the Chinese moral code?

(see the answer key)

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