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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, A People Called Baijini.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Zhu Yunwen allow to return to Zhu Di?
(a) 2,000 of Zhu Di's soldiers.
(b) Zhu Di's wife.
(c) Zhu Di's three remaining sons.
(d) 25 of Zhu Di's concubines.

3. Who did Zhu Di fight and eventually win against in the last years of his life?
(a) The Tartar.
(b) The Japanese pirates.
(c) The Uriyangqad Mongols.
(d) The British Navy.

4. Where did the warships escorting the treasure fleet first engage pirates?
(a) The Yellow Sea.
(b) The Persian Sea.
(c) The Strait of Malacca.
(d) The Indian Ocean.

5. When did the treasure fleet return from its third voyage?
(a) 1411.
(b) 1421.
(c) 1416.
(d) 1412.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the first boat people cross, according to "Chapter 1, The Yi Peoples"?

3. What happened to the maidens that were sent with Hang Libo?

4. What did the treasure fleet discover in Java?

5. When did Wang Zhi try to rebuild a powerful navy?

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