View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marco Polo was curious and adept in seeing and describing the natural history of __________________.
(a) Birds, plants, beasts and spices.
(b) Birds, beasts, people and spices.
(c) Birds, plants, people and herbs.
(d) Birds, plants, beasts and herbs.

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

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

4. The city of Arzingan was located in ___.
(a) Armenia Minor.
(b) Kogni.
(c) Armenia Major.
(d) Ormus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many young female attendants did each legitimate wife have?

2. The Polos survived ______________ for three years until Pope Clement died.

3. Marco Polo stayed at the Great Khan's court for _____ years to do many missions.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marco Polo write this book?

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

3. Tell about the ceremony that took place when emperors or princes (grand khan's) were carried for interment to the mountain of Altai.

4. Tell about the custom in Peyn that pertained to married men and women.

5. Describe the various manufactures in the kingdom of Kierman.

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

7. In Chapter 5, what miraculous circumstances are said to have taken place at Saint Lunardo?

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

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

10. What does the narrator of Marco Polo's travels proclaim this book does?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 886 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample