A) Spanish B) German C) French D) Italian
A) 10th B) 17th C) 15th D) 13th
A) 24 B) 30 C) 18 D) 12
A) Kublai Khan B) Genghis Khan C) Attila the Hun D) Emperor Taizong
A) Journey to the East B) The Silk Road Chronicles C) The Travels of Marco Polo D) Around the World in 80 Days
A) 10 B) 15 C) 20 D) 17
A) Silk Road B) Amber Road C) Incense Trail D) Spice Route
A) India B) Japan C) Mongolia D) China
A) His cousins B) His father and uncle C) His grandparents D) His brothers
A) Naples B) Venice C) Florence D) Milan
A) Leaves B) Silk C) Bark D) Papyrus
A) Nihon B) Yamato C) Cipangu D) Izanagi
A) Christopher Columbus B) Ferdinand Magellan C) Vasco da Gama D) James Cook
A) Merchants B) Scholars C) Artists D) Soldiers
A) Advisor B) Trade ambassador C) General D) Foreign emissary
A) Hundred Years' War B) Crusades C) War with Genoa D) Peloponnesian War
A) Giovanni Boccaccio B) Leonardo da Vinci C) Dante Alighieri D) Rustichello da Pisa
A) Electricity, airplanes, radios B) Plastics, antibiotics, television C) Steam engines, telegraphs, computers D) Porcelain, gunpowder, paper money
A) Roman Empire B) British Empire C) Ottoman Empire D) Mongol Empire
A) Aisha B) Roxelana C) Eleanor D) Kököchin
A) 1269 B) 1254 C) 1240 D) 1275
A) Emilione B) Milione C) Niccolò D) Kublai
A) 'Traveler' B) 'Explorer' C) 'Merchant' D) 'Million'
A) Marco Polo B) Niccolò Polo C) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto D) Giovanni Battista Ramusio
A) Writer B) Explorer C) Travelling merchant D) Scholar
A) 1275 B) 1254 C) 1269 D) 1280
A) 20 years old B) 18 years old C) 10 years old D) 15 years old
A) Beijing B) Constantinople C) Venice D) Baghdad
A) Spices B) Gold coins C) Jewels D) Silk
A) 1265 B) 1290 C) 1280 D) 1271
A) Doge Pietro Gradenigo B) Doge Enrico Dandolo C) Doge Marco Cornaro D) Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo
A) Constantinople B) Beijing C) Acre D) Venice
A) Thirty B) Twenty-one C) Seventeen D) Fifteen
A) 1285 B) 1305 C) 1275 D) 1295
A) Catapult B) Crossbow C) Trebuchet D) Cannon
A) Il Milione B) Livres des Merveilles du Monde C) The Travels of Marco Polo D) The Book of Marvels
A) Agnese B) Moreta C) Donata Badoèr D) Fantina
A) Rustichello da Pisa B) Giovanni Battista Ramusio C) Bartolomeo D) Pietro d'Abano
A) 1299 B) 1305 C) 1310 D) 1321
A) A tiger B) A dragon C) The Sumatran rhinoceros D) An elephant
A) Bellela B) Moreta C) Fantina D) Agnese
A) 1305 B) 1319 C) 1299 D) 1321
A) 1330 B) 1322 C) 1323 D) 1325
A) 10 January 1324 B) 8 January 1324 C) 7 January 1325 D) 9 January 1323
A) Giovanni Giustiniani B) Friar Benvenuto C) Peter, the Tartar servant D) Donata, his wife
A) San Paolo of the Order of Preachers B) San Lorenzo C) The Church D) San Giovanni
A) 50 soldi B) 100 lire C) 300 lire D) 220 soldi
A) At dawn B) At noon C) At sunset D) At midnight
A) San Lorenzo B) The Vatican Archives C) Biblioteca Marciana D) Venice City Hall
A) June 1324 B) 10 January 1325 C) 9 January 1324 D) 8 January 1323
A) The 'testamentum scriptum' rule B) The 'signum manus' rule C) The 'notary validation' rule D) The 'holographic signature' rule
A) Italian by Giovanni Battista Ramusio in 1559 B) Elizabethan version by John Frampton in 1579 C) Castilian translation of 1503 D) Latin manuscript by Francesco Pipino in 1302
A) Bukhara B) Dadu C) Ukek D) Bolghar
A) Two languages B) Four languages C) Three languages D) Five languages
A) They lacked a proper map B) They encountered pirates C) They did not have enough supplies D) The ships there were not seaworthy
A) Beijing B) Zaitun C) Shangdu D) Dadu
A) They were rescued by local villagers B) They negotiated with the bandits C) They fought through to a nearby town D) They hid in the desert until morning
A) Beijing B) Trebizond on the Black Sea C) Shangdu D) Singapore
A) Italian B) Arabic C) Franco-Venetian D) Latin
A) Antonio Montefusco B) Jacopo d'Acqui C) Francesco Pipino D) Rustichello of Pisa
A) Because it was written in a foreign language. B) Because Marco Polo refused to share his experiences. C) Because it contained unbelievable stories. D) Because it lacked detailed maps.
A) Francesco Pipino B) Ronald Latham C) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto D) Antonio Montefusco
A) The translation of 'The Book of Marvels' into Latin. B) Trade agreements between Europe and China. C) The conversion of Marco Polo to Christianity. D) A possible Christian-Mongol alliance against Islam.
A) As a scientific journal B) As a romance or fable C) As an accurate historical document D) As a religious text
A) A Sogdian named Mar-Sargis from Samarkand B) Marco Polo himself C) The Mongol ruler Kublai Khan D) Chinese emperors
A) The Han dynasty B) The Qing dynasty C) The Yuan dynasty D) The Ming dynasty
A) Stephen G. Haw B) Frances Wood C) Herbert Franke D) John W. Haeger
A) John W. Haeger B) Stephen G. Haw C) David Morgan D) Igor de Rachewiltz
A) Herbert Franke B) David Morgan C) John W. Haeger D) Stephen G. Haw
A) Peter Jackson B) David Morgan C) Frances Wood D) Igor de Rachewiltz
A) Beijing B) Nanjing C) Yangzhou D) Shanghai
A) Yes B) No C) As an advisor only D) Only in some sources
A) David Morgan B) Peng Hai C) Herbert Franke D) Ronald Latham
A) David Morgan B) Herbert Franke C) Peng Hai D) Stephen G. Haw
A) Peng Hai B) Herbert Franke C) Paul Pelliot D) David Morgan
A) A religious order B) The imperial guard C) A type of ship D) A trade guild
A) Boluo B) Saman C) Xiangwei D) Mar Sarchis
A) Twelve B) Eleven or thirteen C) Five D) Twenty-four
A) Eleven B) Ten C) Twelve D) Thirteen
A) Six B) Four C) Five D) Three
A) David O. Morgan B) Historian Igor de Rachewiltz C) Sinologist Francis Woodman Cleaves D) Historian Frances Wood
A) The Yongle Encyclopedia B) The Secret History of the Mongols C) The Travels of Marco Polo D) Jami' al-tawarikh
A) There were no Persian books available during his time. B) All Persian sources had been lost by then. C) Polo did not speak Persian. D) The only Persian source mentioning the princess was completed after 1310–1311.
A) Bento de Góis B) Christopher Columbus C) Marco Polo D) Matteo Ricci
A) Ptolemaic map B) Zeno Map C) The 1453 Fra Mauro map D) Mercator projection
A) Marco Polo B) Piero Falchetta C) Giovanni Battista Ramusio D) Matteo Ricci
A) Civilization Revolution (2008). B) Assassin's Creed: Origins. C) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. D) Age of Empires III.
A) Red Dead Redemption II. B) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. C) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009). D) Final Fantasy XV.
A) Marco Millions (1928) B) The Journeyer (1984) C) Messer Marco Polo (1921) D) Invisible Cities (1972)
A) John Fusco B) Miro Branković C) Giuliano Montaldo D) Denis Belliveau
A) Mark Eden B) John Cassavetes C) Ian Somerhalder D) Ken Marshall
A) The Journeyer (1984) B) Marco Millions (1928) C) Messer Marco Polo (1921) D) Invisible Cities (1972)
A) Italo Calvino B) Eugene O'Neill C) John Fusco D) Grania Davis
A) Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988) B) The Judas Strain (2007) C) The Journeyer (1984) D) Invisible Cities (1972)
A) John Cassavetes B) Ken Marshall C) Mark Eden D) Kei Tomiyama
A) Ken Marshall B) Ruocheng Ying C) Brian Dennehy D) Ian Somerhalder
A) Ken Marshall B) Burt Lancaster C) Brian Dennehy D) Ian Somerhalder |