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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 was Karakorum?
(a) The celebration named for Ogodei's succession.
(b) The wine ritual used to innagurate Ogodei.
(c) The traditional garb worn by Ogodei to show his station.
(d) The capital city established by Ogodei.

2. What year did China fall from Mongol rule?
(a) 1368.
(b) 1358.
(c) 1378.
(d) 1388.

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

4. What was the shared name of the three princes who commanded the Christian cities of the plain in 1223?
(a) Ludvik.
(b) Romanovitch.
(c) Konstantine.
(d) Mstislav.

5. In 1263, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?
(a) A public hospital for the Chinese.
(b) A library to promote literacy.
(c) An ancestral temple for his family.
(d) A courthouse to uphold Chinese law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the Ottomans conquer Constantinople?

3. How long did Guyuk serve as the Great Khan?

4. What was life in Xanadu, during 1332?

5. How did the Mongols traditionally begin and measure construction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was superior about the Chinese paper over the parchment made by Europeans?

2. Who was Nicolaus of Cusa?

3. How did Mongke Khan die?

4. Why and how did the Mongols promote education in China?

5. Why did the Mongols face from 1250 - 1270?

6. What happened on February 14, 1349?

7. How did the Mongols adapt the Chinese printing practices?

8. What do "generous scholars" attribute to Khubilai's frequent delays during the war with the Sung?

9. What was in the tea Khubilai drank the morning after a long night of celebration, and what did it do?

10. Why did the Golden Family back Arik Boke instead of Khubilai?

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