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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the introduction, what made "The Travels of Marco Polo" a best seller?
(a) The ease in obtaining a copy of the book.
(b) The wild and exciting tales.
(c) Rustichello's writing.
(d) The mystery of Kubilai Khan's thirteenth century empire.

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

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

5. Marco Polo's father and uncle were _________________.
(a) Merchants in Constantinople.
(b) Traders from Genoa.
(c) Traders from Constantinople.
(d) Merchants in Genoa.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. From the East in 1206, whom did the Mongol tribes elect to rule northern China?

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