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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was forbidden to be traded during the travels of the treasure fleet?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Gold.
(c) Books.
(d) Women.

2. What did the Zhu Di do after the fire at the Forbidden City?
(a) He rebuilt it.
(b) He took a more conservative approach to his ruling.
(c) He purchased 3,500 concubines.
(d) He freed 35,000 eunuchs.

3. What were the women of the Baijini wearing?
(a) White clothing.
(b) Black clothing.
(c) Colorful clothing.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who did Zhu Di blame when he fell off of a horse?
(a) The goddess Yi.
(b) His eunuch.
(c) The foreign leader that gave it to him
(d) Himself.

5. How long was the mourning period following Zhu Di's death?
(a) 100 days.
(b) 300 days.
(c) 200 days.
(d) 150 days.

6. What does "Chapter 7, Emissaries of the Dragon Throne" say Zhu Di went to great lengths to do regarding the Mongols?
(a) Mount tribes against each other.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Force them back north.
(d) Pacify them.

7. Where did Zheng He die?
(a) In prison.
(b) At his home.
(c) At sea.
(d) In India.

8. What did the Chinese use to trade for sapphires and rubies?
(a) Porcelain and silk.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Technology.
(d) Wood carvings.

9. 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.

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

11. When were the foreign envoys who visited the court of China ordered back to their countries?
(a) 1417.
(b) 1416.
(c) 1419.
(d) 1418.

12. What happened to Madame Wang after the dedication of the Forbidden City, according to "Chapter 9, Fires in the Forbidden City"?
(a) She died.
(b) She fled.
(c) She killed another concubine.
(d) She gave birth.

13. What did Zhu Di see the Japan's envoy as a recognition of?
(a) His authenticity as rightful heir to the Dragon Throne.
(b) His superiority to the Shogun.
(c) His place in the world.
(d) The might of his army.

14. What were Hang Libo and her maidens credited with in the legend?
(a) The creation of the Chinese community in Malacca.
(b) Creating shipping lines.
(c) Taming the Sultan.
(d) Building temples.

15. Who were the Baijini linked to?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Mongol.
(c) The Tartars.
(d) The Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Zhu Di to the Throne?

2. When did the Baijini arrive in Australia?

3. Who took effective control of China after Zhu Qizhen's rise to the throne?

4. What did Zheng become for the expatriate Chinese?

5. When did the largest treasure fleet return to China?

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