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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Middle East.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Niccolo Polo and Maffeo Polo sail to Sudak?
(a) 1260.
(b) 1259.
(c) 1250.
(d) 1261.

2. The Polos survived ______________ for three years until Pope Clement died.
(a) Snow and swollen rivers.
(b) Lack of food and shelter.
(c) Heat and blowing winds.
(d) Lack of money and falling snow.

3. The narrator who translated the stories in "The Travels of Marco Polo" was from where?
(a) Spain.
(b) China.
(c) Pisa.
(d) Genoa.

4. _________ were not inhabitants of Tauris.
(a) Jacobites.
(b) Georgians.
(c) Nestorians.
(d) Cathaians.

5. Why did the Great Khan send the Polos and a baron to the Pope requesting a hundred men?
(a) To show his people how to become Catholic and to obtain holy water at the sepulcher in Jerusalem.
(b) To Teach Christianity and to get holy water at the sepulcher in Jerusalem.
(c) To teach Christianity and get oil from a lamp at the sepulcher in Jerusalem.
(d) To decorate a room for him to worship in and to get oil from a lamp at the sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stated in the Prologue as one of the reasons someone would read this book?

2. Arghun was the king of _____________.

3. Trade-routes were costly to follow, so high value commodities like ________________ were needed to make a profit on the way.

4. An envoy of Hulaga invited the Polos to join his trip to the Great Khan of the Tartars, __________.

5. The ________ stone was only available as a gift from the king, according to Chapter 26.

(see the answer key)

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