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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Prisoner and the Prince.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What caused the sea to rise quickly?
(a) The ice melting.
(b) A large earthquake.
(c) Volcanic activity.
(d) Wind.

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

4. Where did the Yi forefathers migrate from?
(a) The Mongol Empire.
(b) India.
(c) Lowlands of China.
(d) Highlands of central China.

5. How large of an army did the Chinese have when they took the provincial seat at Kunming?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Yi turn to the sea for their subsistence?

2. What did Zhu Yuanzhang become after the victory over the Mongols?

3. What did Confucius say about contact with foreigners?

4. When did Confucius live, according to "Chapter 2, Confucians and Curiosities"?

5. Whom was Zhu Di the son of?

(see the answer key)

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