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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ogodei combat the bulkiness of bullion and coinage?
(a) Mongols created a system of paper money.
(b) Ogodei creates a system of debit.
(c) Mongols hired others to carry their money.
(d) Ogodei created a system of credit.

2. The Ming briefly moved the capital city of China to what place?
(a) Kunming.
(b) Taiwan.
(c) Nanjing.
(d) Lanzhou.

3. How long did Guyuk serve as the Great Khan?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Eighteen months.

4. What name did the family of Genghis Khan take around the summer of 1229?
(a) The Giant Family.
(b) The Great Family.
(c) The Golden Family.
(d) The Generous Family.

5. What is khubi?
(a) A small, cozy nook.
(b) A minature form of Khubilai.
(c) A share in the goods siezed from war.
(d) A rectangular block, used for coloring.

6. How many criminals were executed during the three decades of Khubilai's rule?
(a) Less than 1,500.
(b) More than 3,500.
(c) Less than 2,500.
(d) More than 3,000.

7. How did Guyuk die?
(a) Nobody knows.
(b) He was killed by his own torture methods.
(c) He was killed by Sorkhokhtani.
(d) He was killed by a warring tribe.

8. What land did Subodei wish to invade, when he was about sixty?
(a) Europe.
(b) Persia.
(c) India.
(d) China.

9. Who were the Kipchak?
(a) Chineese warriors.
(b) Persian monks.
(c) Indian shaman.
(d) Turkic tribes.

10. What happened to the consensual councils in China, after the Mongols were no longer in power?
(a) The Chineese kept having daily meetings, but a councilor made all the decisions.
(b) They stayed exactly the same.
(c) They disappeared.
(d) The Chinese changed the daily meetings, but kept consensus voting.

11. Which pope issued a papal bull in 1348, ordering the prosecution of the Jews to halt?
(a) Pope Pius III.
(b) Pope Clement VI.
(c) Pope Pius VII.
(d) Pope Clement III.

12. How did Jebe and Subodei lead the raid into Georgia?
(a) The Dog Fight strategy.
(b) The Arrow Waterfall strategy.
(c) The Bursting Star strategy.
(d) The Flaming Rain strategy.

13. Who penned the first known encyclopedia of natural history, in France?
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Carolus Linnaeus.
(c) Comte de Buffon.
(d) Andrea Cesalpino.

14. Where did the Mongols discover the triangular plow?
(a) Southeast Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Persia.
(d) China.

15. What did Ogodei make the centerpiece of the palace?
(a) A giant chess-set.
(b) A series of gold and silver wine vats.
(c) A series of lakes for waterfowl.
(d) His throne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What land did Guyuk wish to control and viewed as most important?

2. How did Ogodei influence merchants to seek him out?

3. What year is the earliest reported Mongol presence in the French court?

4. What did the Mongol women do while the men were on the battlefield?

5. What was Karakorum?

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