This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Common Subjects > English Hornbill > Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 8 Silk Road – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 8 Silk Road Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Primate cities are always the capital cities. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. What cultural impact did The Silk Road have on ancient China? A) Introduction of Hinduism. B) Introduction of Christianity. C) Introduction of Islam. D) Introduction of Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Introduction of Buddhism. 3. What product was monopolized by China before Central Asia began to produce it? A) Glass. B) Paper. C) Gunpowder. D) Silk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silk. 4. What played a significant role in maintaining the ancient Silk Road? A) Independent merchants. B) Religious institutions. C) State power. D) Nomadic tribes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) State power. 5. According to Marco Polo, the Mongols have the best what? A) Falcons. B) Mares. C) Dogs and Mice. D) Falcons and dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falcons and dogs. 6. Which of the following is a good that Europeans wanted from Asia during the Silk Road years? A) Turkeys. B) Silk. C) Gunpowder. D) Paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silk. 7. Why is Zhang Qian often called the father of the Silk Road? A) This military leader made the highway safe for traders. B) The explorer brought back word of western cultures. C) This teacher encouraged the exchange of ideas. D) This emperor forced peasants to work on construction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The explorer brought back word of western cultures. 8. What is the most valuable good of these four things? A) A bar of chocolate. B) A shirt. C) Sunglasses. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gold. 9. Which region was settled by Austronesians or Malayo-Polynesians and became expert seafarers? A) Northeast Asia. B) Northern Europe. C) Mainland Southeast Asia. D) Island Southeast Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Island Southeast Asia. 10. According to the author the cairn of rocks is A) At the height of 5, 515 metres. B) People took a turn round the cairn in a clockwise direction as is the tradition. C) Decorated with white silk scarves and ragged prayer flags. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 11. What is the name of the network of multiple routes that gradually emerged over centuries, connecting various settlements and cultures? A) Inca Trail. B) Roman Road. C) Great Wall. D) Silk Road. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silk Road. 12. Which of the following continents was NOT involved in the Silk Road? A) Europe. B) North America. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North America. 13. A time of wealth and power. A) Caravan. B) Decade. C) Network. D) Heyday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heyday. 14. What significant commercial inovations occured as a response to increased trade in the Silk Road? A) Banking houses, caravanserai and flying cash. B) Monsoons, the compass and increased litteracy. C) The spread of Buddhism and Islam. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banking houses, caravanserai and flying cash. 15. What event sparked the Age of Discovery according to the passage? A) The closing of the Silk Road by the Ottoman Empire. B) The takeover of Constantinople by the Roman Empire. C) The desire of kings and queens to gain land. D) The invention of the rudder. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The closing of the Silk Road by the Ottoman Empire. 16. Norbu's remark that they were"Two academics who have escaped from the library"means A) Both were taking a break and had set out to do Kora. B) Both were alone in the pilgrimage. C) They both wanted company and could be a team in the journey. D) Both knew English and could understand eah other. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They both wanted company and could be a team in the journey. 17. Which of the following statements is true about the Silk Road? A) It was a single road connecting Asia and Europe. B) It was a system of routes connecting various regions. C) It was only used for trading silk. D) It was built by the Romans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was a system of routes connecting various regions. 18. The Silk Road stretched through Asia with additional overland and water trade routes connecting China, India, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt, Africa, Greece, ..... , and even Britain. A) Rome. B) Korea. C) Japan. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rome. 19. In China, Marco Polo met the famed emperor (a) . A) A. Kublai Khan. B) Genghis Khan. C) Qin Shi Huang. D) Christopher Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Kublai Khan. 20. Someone who lives by traveling from place to place, does not form a permanent home. A) Export. B) Supply. C) Nomad. D) Import. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nomad. 21. What types of goods traveled along the Silk Road? A) Stones, coffee, glass, cotton, cows linen. B) Diamonds, pottery, nylon, donkeys, goods. C) Jade and other precious stones, porcelain, tea, spices, silk, horses, glassware, textiles, manufactured goods. D) Gold, opals, denim, pigs, textiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jade and other precious stones, porcelain, tea, spices, silk, horses, glassware, textiles, manufactured goods. 22. The Silk Road was an actual road that ran from China to Rome. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Junks were sea-going vessels used by the Chinese in the second century. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. How does the author show the rough journey over land? A) By comparing the journey over land to the journey over sea. B) By telling how the Silk Road had no real markings for people to follow. C) By explaining how robbers knew the goods traders carried were valuable. D) By listing the problems traders faced first in the desert and then in the mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By listing the problems traders faced first in the desert and then in the mountains. 25. What was the natural border of China that was a desert? A) Sahara Desert. B) Death Valley. C) Gobi Desert. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gobi Desert. 26. Which of the following was NOT a city along the Silk Road? A) Samarkand. B) Venice. C) New York. D) Beijing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York. 27. Which dynasty in China was the Silk Road founded A) The Eastern Han Dynasty. B) The Western Han Dynasty. C) Ming Dynasty. D) Qin dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Western Han Dynasty. 28. A Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century A) Blue Horde. B) Red Horde. C) Pink Horde. D) Golden Horde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Golden Horde. 29. What popular item was sold throughout the Silk Road that had a far greater impact than Silk? A) Gunpowder. B) Metals. C) Spices. D) Paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paper. 30. When did the Silk Road "open up" ? A) Around 1206, when the Mongols took over. B) In the year 2000. C) Around 800 BCE during the Zhou Dynasty. D) Around 139 BCE during the Han Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Around 139 BCE during the Han Dynasty. 31. What technology enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies, and languages along the Silk Road? A) Magnetic Compass. B) Internet. C) Caravan. D) Satellite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magnetic Compass. 32. An archeologists looking for evidence of religions practiced along the Silk Road would be most interested in A) The conversations you had with locals in Kashgar. B) Chang'an. C) Mogao Caves. D) Xi'an. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mogao Caves. 33. Which religion spread from India to China and Japan via the Silk Road? A) Christianity. B) Buddhism. C) Hinduism. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 34. Which of the following scientific fields benefited from the cultural exchanges on the Silk Road? A) Nanotechnology. B) Genomics. C) Cybernetics. D) Astronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astronomy. 35. What was the most important export of the Silk Road? A) Gold. B) Spices. C) Tea. D) Silk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silk. 36. What did the Silk Road enable besides the movement of goods? A) Movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies, and languages. B) Movement of armies and military expeditions. C) Movement of nomadic tribes. D) Movement of demons and folklore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies, and languages. 37. What types of products did Asia have that made it valuable in the Indian Ocean Trade? A) Spices. B) Gold. C) Ivory. D) Salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spices. 38. Ideas like ..... were traded A) Christianity. B) Hope. C) Capitalism. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Religion. 39. What was an old route from Lhasa to Kashmir? A) West-south highway. B) Hor town. C) East-west highway. D) South-west highway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) East-west highway. 40. What did the Scythians come in contact with? A) Greece, Egypt, India, and China. B) Rome, Persia, and India. C) Hungary, Mongolia, and China. D) Persia, India, and China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greece, Egypt, India, and China. 41. Workers at the dry salt lakes were A) Busy loading trucks with piles of salt. B) Carried pickaxes and shovels. C) Wore sunglasses to avoid the glare caused by a steady stream of trucks. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 42. What some specific examples of the technological causes of increased trade along the silk road? A) Caravenserai, flying cash and banking houses. B) Lateen sails, maps, compass and astrolabe. C) Compass, astrolabe, maps and camel saddles. D) Dhow ships, maps and compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compass, astrolabe, maps and camel saddles. 43. The Magao Caves were A) Markets. B) Buddhist sanctuaries. C) Apartment housing. D) Christian sanctuaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhist sanctuaries. 44. What 2 major geographical features can be found on the Silk Road? A) Mountains and Rivers. B) Deserts and Plateaus. C) Deserts and Mountains. D) Plateaus and Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deserts and Mountains. 45. What animal was mainly used to transport most of the goods along the Silk Road? A) Horses. B) Camels. C) Llamas in disguise. D) Elephants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Camels. 46. Someone who buys and sells goods for profit A) Merchant. B) Gold-digger. C) Nomad. D) Caravan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merchant. 47. Which of the following best describes why many goods never made it to the end of the Silk Road? A) Items were traded before reaching end of Silk Road. B) Traders were killed by bandits. C) Native Americans stole many goods being traded. D) People were dying from bubonic plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Items were traded before reaching end of Silk Road. 48. What does it mean when a country imports goods? A) The country brings goods in from other countries. B) The country sends goods to other countries. C) The country buys goods from just one other country. D) The country sells goods to other countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The country brings goods in from other countries. 49. Which philosophy did the Tang Dynasty use to govern? A) Daoism. B) Legalism. C) Confucianism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confucianism. 50. Why did Qin Shi huangdi build the Great Wall of China? A) For protection from invaders from the north. B) For protection from invaders from the west. C) For protection from invaders from the south. D) For protection from invaders from the east. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For protection from invaders from the north. 51. Which product from the West had a remarkable demand in the Roman Empire? A) Glassware. B) Silk. C) Spices. D) Tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silk. 52. Silk was considered so valuable that if someone told the secret of how to make it, they would ..... A) Be exiled to Korea. B) Be sentenced to hard labor. C) Be given an award. D) Be sentenced to death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Be sentenced to death. 53. How did the plague spread to Europe in the 14th century? A) None of the above. B) Via the Silk Road. C) Through contaminated water. D) By air travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Via the Silk Road. 54. Did the businessmen have any difficulties? A) Icy Blizzards. B) Desert heat and sandstorms. C) Rain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rain. 55. Which word best describes the scope of the Silk Road? A) Intergalactic. B) Intercontinental. C) Interstate. D) Interminable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intercontinental. 56. How did the Silk Road influence the study of astronomy? A) By creating star maps. B) By spreading the use of the astrolabe. C) By inventing the telescope. D) By discovering new planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By spreading the use of the astrolabe. 57. Which empire's conquest led to the expansion of Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian culture and trade into Central Asia? A) Greek Empire. B) Roman Empire. C) Chinese Empire. D) Mongolian Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mongolian Empire. 58. The diffusion of maritime technology, like the magnetic compass, led to which effect? A) The dawn of European exploration and the seeking of oceanic trade routes to Asia. B) The establishment of more overland trade routes that extended to Southern Africa. C) Europe discovering the Americans and immediately ending all trade with Asia. D) The increase of European merchants on the Silk Road under Ottoman rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dawn of European exploration and the seeking of oceanic trade routes to Asia. 59. Which countries were found around silk road? A) Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,. B) Switzerland, Germany, Poland, France, Spain. C) China, India, Greece, Rome, Britain. D) Bhutan, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China, India, Greece, Rome, Britain. 60. How did trade along the Silk Road contribute to employment? A) Businesses hired more people to make enough goods to trade. B) Traders hired more craftspeople to build vehicles for caravans. C) Caravans hired more soldiers to protect traders during the journey. D) Governments hired more workers to collect taxes from traders. 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