This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 8 Silk Road – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 8 Silk Road Quiz 27 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Someone who lives by traveling from place to place, does not form a permanent home. A) Nomad. B) Import. C) Export. D) Supply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nomad. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. Which dynasty in China was the Silk Road founded A) Qin dynasty. B) Ming Dynasty. C) The Western Han Dynasty. D) The Eastern Han Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Western Han Dynasty. 9. A Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century A) Golden Horde. B) Red Horde. C) Pink Horde. D) Blue Horde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Golden Horde. 10. What popular item was sold throughout the Silk Road that had a far greater impact than Silk? A) Spices. B) Paper. C) Metals. D) Gunpowder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paper. 11. When did the Silk Road "open up" ? A) Around 139 BCE during the Han Dynasty. B) Around 1206, when the Mongols took over. C) Around 800 BCE during the Zhou Dynasty. D) In the year 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Around 139 BCE during the Han Dynasty. 12. What technology enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies, and languages along the Silk Road? A) Magnetic Compass. B) Caravan. C) Satellite. D) Internet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magnetic Compass. 13. 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) Mogao Caves. C) Xi'an. D) Chang'an. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mogao Caves. 14. Which religion spread from India to China and Japan via the Silk Road? A) Christianity. B) Islam. C) Buddhism. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism. 15. Which of the following scientific fields benefited from the cultural exchanges on the Silk Road? A) Astronomy. B) Genomics. C) Nanotechnology. D) Cybernetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astronomy. 16. What was the most important export of the Silk Road? A) Gold. B) Spices. C) Silk. D) Tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silk. 17. 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. 18. Trade city in Western China that was a popular trading post on the Silk Road from 1200-1450. A) Kashghar. B) Samarkand. C) Bactria. D) Beijing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kashghar. 19. What types of products did Asia have that made it valuable in the Indian Ocean Trade? A) Ivory. B) Gold. C) Salt. D) Spices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spices. 20. Ideas like ..... were traded A) Hope. B) Christianity. C) Capitalism. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Religion. 21. What was an old route from Lhasa to Kashmir? A) East-west highway. B) Hor town. C) West-south highway. D) South-west highway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East-west highway. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. The Magao Caves were A) Buddhist sanctuaries. B) Christian sanctuaries. C) Apartment housing. D) Markets. 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