Multiple choice practice
Each source comes with its own questions, the set is timed, and every answer is explained at the end. Pick a short set for a quick drill, or the full set to practice exam timing.
Before you start
On the real exam, every multiple choice question is about a source: a passage, image, map, or chart. This works the same way, so you get used to reading a source and answering from it.
Sources
14
Questions
42
Directions
Choose a length
What's in this unit
1. Rubruck on Mongol roads and Karakorum
3 questions2. Ibn Battuta crosses the Sahara
3 questions3. A merchant ship in an Arabic manuscript
3 questions4. Boccaccio on the plague in Florence
3 questions5. Pegolotti's advice for merchants bound for Cathay
3 questions6. Zhao Rugua on Srivijaya
2 questions7. Ibn Battuta on Mogadishu and Kilwa
3 questions8. Mansa Musa on the Catalan Atlas
2 questions9. Marco Polo on Yuan paper money
2 questions10. A historian on Islam in the Malay Archipelago
4 questions11. Population of trading cities, 1200-1400
2 questions12. Carter on Chinese inventions moving west
4 questions13. The Ming history on Zheng He's voyages
4 questions14. Marco Polo on the port of Zayton
4 questions