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