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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An envoy of Hulaga invited the Polos to join his trip to the Great Khan of the Tartars, __________.
(a) Arikbuga.
(b) Kaidu.
(c) Chinghiz.
(d) Kubilai.

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

3. From the East in 1206, whom did the Mongol tribes elect to rule northern China?
(a) Chingis.
(b) Barka.
(c) Chinghiz.
(d) Nayan.

4. What three regions were assigned to lesser family khans to rule over?
(a) European Russia, Levant from southern Persia to the Mediterranean and Central Asia's Turkestan.
(b) European Russia, Levant from eastern Persia to the Mediterranean and Central Asia's Turkestan.
(c) Western Russia, Levant from eastern Persia to the Mediterranean and Central Asia's Turkestan.
(d) Northern Russia, Levant from eastern Persia to the Mediterranean and Eastern Asia's Turkestan.

5. Barka Khan was the lord of ______________.
(a) Levant.
(b) Tartary.
(c) Persia.
(d) Bukhara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marco Polo was curious and adept in seeing and describing the natural history of __________________.

2. The Great Khan issued ___________ to assure lodging and needs when the Polos went to the Pope.

3. The narrator who translated the stories in "The Travels of Marco Polo" was from where?

4. Who is being addressed in the Prologue?

5. In ____, a battle began with the sultan of Egypt.

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