Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 8 Silk Road Quiz 43 (20 MCQs)

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1. True or False.People could trade ideas and beliefs along the Silk Road.

Correct Answer: A) True.

2. Leaving Kashgar and traveling East, what physical feature did travelers have to prepare to cross?

Correct Answer: C) Desert.

3. What is the zone of rolling grassland extending from eastern Mongolia west into Romania and Hungary?

Correct Answer: A) The Trans-Eurasian Steppe Belt.

4. The things that people buy and sell are

Correct Answer: C) Goods.

5. Merchants used camels to move goods on the eastern Silk Road what animals carried goods on the western Silk Road?

Correct Answer: B) Yaks.

6. Which of these famous structures owes its existence at least partially to the Silk Road?

Correct Answer: C) Great Wall of China.

7. What is the largest and most important city in a country?

Correct Answer: D) Primate city.

8. Travel along the Silk Road began to decrease after 1000 A.D. because

Correct Answer: C) Travel became too dangerous.

9. What era began as Europeans sought new trade routes to East Asia?

Correct Answer: C) The Age of Exploration.

10. Which animal do people in the Silk Roads use to help with travel

Correct Answer: A) Camel.

11. How long did the Silk Road remain in effect?

Correct Answer: C) Centuries.

12. What is the emphasis of Daoism?

Correct Answer: A) Living in harmony with "the way".

13. Which of these cities was the ancient capital of China, and the eastern end of the Silk Road.

Correct Answer: B) Chang'an, eastern China.

14. Which of the following contributed most to the completion of the overland Silk Routes?

Correct Answer: A) The growth of powerful empires in Europe and Asia.

15. Select the option(s) that can be used to describe a Tibetan Mastiffi) Ferocious ii)Alert iii) Friendly iv) Goofy v) Loyal

Correct Answer: A) I and ii.

16. What do we call a person traveling with the sole purpose of trading?

Correct Answer: A) Merchant.

17. Besides merchandise, what else traveled along the Silk Road?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

18. What did Marco Polo bring back with him from his travels along the Silk Road?

Correct Answer: A) Knowledge and experience.

19. Which Chinese philosophy teaches respect at home and in society?

Correct Answer: A) Confucianism.

20. True or False. The Silk Road connected every region of the Ancient World.

Correct Answer: A) False.