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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Battuta educated in?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Geography.
(c) Law.
(d) Biology.

2. What is a Qadi?
(a) A mapmaker.
(b) A storyteller.
(c) A judge.
(d) A healer.

3. What other traveler is Battuta compared to?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) King Ferdinand.
(d) Rob Maher.

4. Where did Battuta wait to join a hajj?
(a) Galilee.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Bethlehem.
(d) Jerusalem.

5. What was Cairo a crossroads of in the time of this book?
(a) Trade routes.
(b) Inventions and technology.
(c) Warring tribes.
(d) Religious reform.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Maristan?

2. What did the Mamluks start out as before they came into power?

3. What did Battuta do when something bothered him in a bathhouse?

4. Why was Tangier not a center of learning?

5. What language did the Mamluks speak?

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