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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is naadam?
(a) The traditional songs of the Mongols.
(b) The traditional games of the Mongols.
(c) The traditional food of the Mongols.
(d) The traditional way of throat-singing of the Mongols.

2. When there was no time to cook, how did Mongol soldiers prepare their meat?
(a) They ate it raw.
(b) They put it under their saddles.
(c) They dipped it in alcohol.
(d) They did not eat meat, only grains.

3. What year did Genghis Khan die?
(a) 1227.
(b) 1217.
(c) 1207.
(d) 1237.

4. Whom did Temujin ask for help, after the kidnapping of Borte?
(a) Ong Khan.
(b) Jamuka.
(c) The Merkid.
(d) Mongke.

5. The night before his decisive battle with the Naiman, Temujin asked his soldiers to sleep soundly. What happened to many of the Naiman men?
(a) Many of the fleeing Naiman fell off a cliff.
(b) Temujin lit many fires, so it would seem like he had more men.
(c) Temujin picked men off, one by one, all through the night.
(d) Many of the fleeing Naimen were pursued by Jamuka.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Mongol army kill, during battle?

2. How did Temujin and his nineteen men survive starvation on the muddy Lake Balujna?

3. Who was Temujin descended from?

4. Where did Genghis Khan get the idea to write down his laws?

5. What is another name for a Spirit Banner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Genghis Khan's stance on adultery?

2. Who was Guchlug?

3. How did Genghis Khan quickly depopulate an area, and for what strategic purpose?

4. What was the most distinctive thing about Genghis Khan's Great Law, particularly in contrast with western European monarchs?

5. How did Genghis Khan's men prepare for the great hunting celebration during the winter of 1222 - 1223? How did they gather the animals together?

6. What did Jamuka offer Temujin in death?

7. What was troublesome about Borte's first pregnancy?

8. What are the Five Snouts?

9. Describe the steppe.

10. What was in the caravan Genghis Khan sent to the sultan of Khwarizm?

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