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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the name Kanbalu mean?
(a) City of the sovereign.
(b) City of mass wealth.
(c) City of the great khan.
(d) City of the beautiful.

2. Tartars mostly survived on ____________ while on an expedition.
(a) Barley.
(b) Meat.
(c) Berries.
(d) Milk.

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

4. Who was the ruler of Kierman?
(a) Corobar Achomak.
(b) Reobarle Ormus.
(c) Mazier Ozier.
(d) Rukmedin Achomak.

5. What festival was celebrated September 28th?
(a) White feast.
(b) The festival of the golden tablets.
(c) Tribunal day.
(d) The birth of the grand khan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was an umbrella carried overhead of the grand khan?

2. How many men did the grand khan appoint to oversee his officers and the men of his army?

3. What did the grand khan require be planted on the sides of roads?

4. Who did Kubilai Khan revere the most?

5. Tartars were experts in _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the wives of the grand khan.

2. Why did the Polos return to Arghun, kahn of the Levant, with a bride?

3. Describe the city of Karakoran.

4. What needs did a practical traveler and merchant have in order to survive along the route?

5. Why did Marco Polo write this book?

6. Tell about the custom of showing respect to strangers from the district of Kamul.

7. Describe Lesser Armenia as Marco Polo did in Chapter 2.

8. Describe the personal guards for the grand khan.

9. Why was Marco Polo sent as an emissary of the Great Kahn throughout the empire?

10. Why couldn't the Polos return to Constantinople? What did they do?

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