Quiz for Working with Evidence: Travelers’ Tales and Observations

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Source 7.1: A Chinese Buddhist in India

Source 7.2: A European Christian in China

Source 7.3: A Moroccan Diplomat in West Africa

Choose the best answer to each question.

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1. Which group in Indian society does the following passage from Xuanzang describe (Source 7.1)? “In coming and going these persons are bound to keep on the left side of the road till they arrive at their homes. Their homes are surrounded by low walls and form the suburbs.”

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2. What about Chinese customs does Marco Polo find distasteful (Source 7.2)?

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3. According to Leo Africanus (Source 7.3), Timbuktu was home to which of the following?

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4. In the excerpt from A Biography of the Tripitaka Master (Source 7.1), how did the Buddhist monk Xuanzang respond to the experience of visiting the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment?

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5. Which traveler in this document set wrote his account centuries before the others?