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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Wang Tuan.
(d) Zhu Yuanzhang.

3. What did the King of Bengal offer to Zhu Di?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A tiger.
(c) 25 women.
(d) 2,500 eunuchs.

4. When did Timur invade China?
(a) 1408.
(b) 1409.
(c) 1405.
(d) 1406.

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

6. What was Zhu Di satisfied with, according to "Chapter 8, The Auspicious Appearance of the Celestial Animals"?
(a) The number of ships he had.
(b) The new canons China developed.
(c) The four corners of the sea were quiet.
(d) The plans for the Forbidden City.

7. What word is used to describe the relation between Chinese and Swahili?
(a) Irt.
(b) Ishra.
(c) Wanta.
(d) Iskar.

8. What did Zhu Di refer to himself as?
(a) Great Man.
(b) The Solar Emperor.
(c) Lord of the realms of the face of the earth.
(d) The Solar King.

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

10. How did the leader of the Timur die?
(a) Natural causes.
(b) Killed by an archer.
(c) Killed by his wife.
(d) Poisoned by a snake.

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

12. Who took effective control of China after Zhu Qizhen's rise to the throne?
(a) Wang Tuan.
(b) Wang Zhen.
(c) Zhen Tuan.
(d) Zhu Wen.

13. What was Zhu Di in the process of doing at the time the fourth treasure fleet set sail?
(a) Preparing to invade Japan.
(b) Relocating the capital city.
(c) Preparing his wedding.
(d) Negotiating with the Mongols.

14. How many men did the Timur army have when it invaded China?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 100,000.

15. What was banned during the early Ming Dynasty?
(a) Fish.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Concubines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Hang Libo brought to Malacca?

2. What dynasty was Zhu Di part of ?

3. What modern country were the Banjuni from?

4. What was punishable by death by 1500?

5. Whose songs record the arrival of the Baijini, according to "Epilogue, A People Called Baijini"?

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