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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What year did the assigned person present Khubilai with an alphabet that could write all the languages in the world?
(a) 1269.
(b) 1264.
(c) 12775.
(d) 1271.
2. What did Khubilai change his name to in 1264?
(a) Zhiyuan, or Chih-yuan.
(b) Arik Boke.
(c) Khubilai Khan.
(d) The Great Khan.
3. Who helped form the Mongol alliance with the Sung?
(a) Ogodei.
(b) Subodei.
(c) Karakorum.
(d) Jebe.
4. Western scholars have designated the fourteenth century as what?
(a) The Pax Mongolica.
(b) The Silken Era.
(c) The Golden Age of Europe.
(d) The age of the Bubonic Terror.
5. What was life in Xanadu, during 1332?
(a) Introspective and intellectual.
(b) Boisterous and energetic.
(c) Alarming and painful.
(d) Quiet and tranquil.
6. What happened if a Mongol, under Khubilai, declared bankruptcy more than two times?
(a) The rack.
(b) Caning.
(c) Mongols could not declare bankruptcy.
(d) Possible execution.
7. To whom did Ogodei convey most of his administrative power?
(a) Sorkhokhtani.
(b) Ebuskun.
(c) Jebe.
(d) Toregene.
8. What year did Persia fall from the Mongol rule?
(a) 1315.
(b) 1345.
(c) 1335.
(d) 1325.
9. What did the Mongols believe Friar Carpini brought to them?
(a) Information on Christianity and Jesus.
(b) Submission from the Pope.
(c) Goods from Europe.
(d) A message of war.
10. What year did China fall from Mongol rule?
(a) 1368.
(b) 1358.
(c) 1388.
(d) 1378.
11. How many letters were in the alphabetic system that could write all the languages in the world?
(a) 73.
(b) 52.
(c) 25.
(d) 41.
12. Where did Khubilai send the heir of the Sung dynasty to study, so he would not rebel?
(a) Japan.
(b) India.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Tibet.
13. Who was the envoy appointed to meet King Edward the I of England?
(a) Rabban Markos.
(b) Rabban Bar Sawma
(c) Mar Denha I.
(d) Isa Kelemechi.
14. When did the Ottomans conquer Constantinople?
(a) 1453.
(b) 1353.
(c) 1543.
(d) 1443.
15. What did the reliance on imported goods reflect in feudal Europe?
(a) Total normalcy.
(b) Exotic tastes.
(c) A failure at home.
(d) Early shopoholoicism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What animal did the plague bacterium live in?
2. Throughout the Renaissance the Mongols were generally treated with adulation. However, what time period opened up a distinct anti-Asian sentiment?
3. How many people did Mongke execute within Ogodei's lineage?
4. How did Marco Polo describe the money in circulation under Khubilai?
5. In 1272, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?
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