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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does "Chapter 11, The Sultan's Bride" say grew stronger as China grew weaker?
(a) The Japanese.
(b) The Mongols.
(c) The Tartars.
(d) The British.

2. When did the largest treasure fleet return to China?
(a) 1418.
(b) 1405.
(c) 1416.
(d) 1415.

3. What did Sumatra provide to China?
(a) Rubies.
(b) Sulfur.
(c) Coal.
(d) Nitric acid.

4. Who saw to it that Chinese calendars, Confucian books, and Buddhist scriptures were spread to new lands by the treasure fleet?
(a) Zhu Wang.
(b) Zhu Yi.
(c) Zhu Yuanzhang.
(d) Wang Tuan.

5. What would archaeological evidence indicate if the people of both Baijini and Banjuni were not of Chinese descent?
(a) Errors in the translation of the names.
(b) The names were a coincidence.
(c) It cannot indicate anything, but that they were descended from the Chinese.
(d) Both were influenced by the Chinese.

6. When did the treasure fleet return from its 7th voyage?
(a) 1431.
(b) 1433.
(c) 1432.
(d) 1430.

7. How did the leader of the Timur die?
(a) Natural causes.
(b) Killed by his wife.
(c) Poisoned by a snake.
(d) Killed by an archer.

8. When did Wang Zhi try to rebuild a powerful navy?
(a) 1478.
(b) 1457.
(c) 1475.
(d) 1477.

9. What word is used to describe the relation between Chinese and Swahili?
(a) Irt.
(b) Iskar.
(c) Wanta.
(d) Ishra.

10. Who took effective control of China after Zhu Qizhen's rise to the throne?
(a) Wang Zhen.
(b) Zhen Tuan.
(c) Zhu Wen.
(d) Wang Tuan.

11. What sea did Zhu Di want the fourth expedition of the treasure fleet to go to?
(a) Manila.
(b) The Persian Sea.
(c) India.
(d) Africa.

12. What modern country were the Banjuni from?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Mozambique.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Britain.

13. When did Timur invade China?
(a) 1405.
(b) 1409.
(c) 1406.
(d) 1408.

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

15. What was Zhu Di in the process of doing at the time the fourth treasure fleet set sail?
(a) Preparing to invade Japan.
(b) Preparing his wedding.
(c) Negotiating with the Mongols.
(d) Relocating the capital city.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Baijini arrive in Australia?

2. How was Zhu Zhanji related to Zhu Di, according to "Chapter 10, The Last Voyage"?

3. What town has relics of Chinese pottery and other artifacts?

4. Who was buried with Zhu Di?

5. What did the King of Bengal offer to Zhu Di?

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