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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Road to Cathay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Trade-routes were costly to follow, so high value commodities like ________________ were needed to make a profit on the way.
(a) Precious gems, fabrics, spices and gold.
(b) Precious gems, minerals, furs and gold.
(c) Precious gems, silk, spices, and gold.
(d) Precious gems, furs, spices and gold.

2. Chingis-khan was revered as a ______.
(a) Sovereign.
(b) King.
(c) Diety.
(d) Father.

3. Marco Polo was curious and adept in seeing and describing the natural history of __________________.
(a) Birds, plants, beasts and herbs.
(b) Birds, plants, people and herbs.
(c) Birds, plants, beasts and spices.
(d) Birds, beasts, people and spices.

4. Who is being addressed in the Prologue?
(a) The learned.
(b) Emperors, kings, dukes, marquises, earls, and knights.
(c) Kings and other dignitaries of the world.
(d) Readers of the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "The Travels of Marco Polo" was penned in ________ by the writer Marco Polo commissioned.

3. "The Travels of Marco Polo" was first introduced to the reading public in the thirteenth century as what?

4. "Idolaters" include________.

5. Why did the people of Karkan suffer from swollen legs and goiters?

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