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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Travels of Marco Polo" was penned in ________ by the writer Marco Polo commissioned.
(a) Arabic.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Russian.

2. Survival required a practical traveler and merchant to take advantage of ___________along the route with natural and man-made obstacles.
(a) Water, shelter and food.
(b) Food, water and transport.
(c) Shelter, routes and people.
(d) People, places and food.

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

4. In ____, a battle began with the sultan of Egypt.
(a) Yezd.
(b) Zorzania.
(c) Acre.
(d) Ayas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Great Khan send the Polos and a baron to the Pope requesting a hundred men?

2. Marco Polo's descriptions of human history are ______________.

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

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

5. "Idolaters" include________.

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