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

2. What did the infant, Christ, give the wise men as they were leaving?
(a) A bag of spices.
(b) A piece of gold cloth.
(c) A gold coin.
(d) A stone.

3. Where was Chingis-khan buried?
(a) Succuir.
(b) Jorza.
(c) Altai.
(d) Bargu.

4. Arghun was the king of _____________.
(a) Levant.
(b) Baghdad.
(c) Zanzibar.
(d) European Russia.

5. What was the doctrine of faith held by the Tartars, according to Chapter 48?
(a) They believed in a deity whose nature was to subdue the world.
(b) They believed in a deity whose nature was sublime and heavenly.
(c) They believed in a deity whose nature was of wrath.
(d) They believed in a deity whose nature was full of intellect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Tartars first establish residence?

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

3. In Zorzania, the king was usually called _______ .

4. The city of Arzingan was located in ___.

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

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