Analyzing an Autobiographical Essay Answers

Map of Europe and Asia showing Marco Polo's route in red dashes and arrows.

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.Hormuz is a great and splendid city on the sea, governed by a malik and with several cities and towns in subjection to it. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. The climate is excessively hot—so hot that the houses are fitted with ventilators to catch the wind. The ventilators are set to face the quarter from which the wind blows and let it blow into the house. This they do because they cannot endure the over-powering heat.

What are the main purposes of a travelogue? Select three options.to inform readers about a place, landscape, or cultureto persuade readers to visit a certain locationto convince readers that something is trueto describe the ideas of a famous historical figure to readersto entertain readers with stories of a journey

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.This province produces great quantities of excellent white incense, and also dates in great abundance. No grain is grown here except rice, and not much of that; but it is imported from abroad at a big profit. Fish is plentiful, notably tunnies of large size, which are so abundant that two of them can be bought for a Venetian groat. The staple diet consists of rice, meat, and fish.

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.Dhofar is a fine city of great size and splendor lying about 500 miles north-west of Shihr. Here again the people are Saracens and worship Mahomet, and are subject to a count who is likewise subject to the sultan of Aden. You must understand that this city is still within the province of Aden. The city stands on the sea and has a very good port, frequented by many merchant ships that import and export great quantities of merchandise. Many good Arab steeds, and horses from other lands as well, are brought here, and the merchants make a handsome profit on them. The city has many other cities and towns under its sway. Here again good incense grows in profusion - I will tell you how.

Which statement best defines a travelogue?

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo and study the map.[This] is an island lying about 1,000 miles south of Socotra. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. They have four sheikhs—that is to say, four elders—who exercise authority over the whole island. You must know that this island is one of the biggest and best in the whole world. It is said to measure about 4,000 miles in circumference. The people live by trade and industry. More elephants are bred here than in any other province; and I assure you that not so many elephant tusks are sold in all the rest of the world put together as in this island and that of Zanzibar.

Based on the map, where does Marco Polo go after he visits Hormuz and continues to travel east? Select two options.

Read the excerpt from The Travels of Marco Polo and study the map.When the traveler leaves Kuh-banan he goes for fully eight days through a desert. . . . After these eight days he reaches a province called Tun and Kain, where there are cities and towns in plenty. It is situated on the northern borders of Persia. There is an immense plain here, in which stands the Solitary Tree, which the Christians call the Dry Tree.

What are most likely the author's purposes for writing this text? Select two options.

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.And let me tell you something else. They have sheep here that have no ears, nor even ear-holes; but in the place where ears ought to be they have little horns. They are small creatures and very pretty. And here is something else that may strike you as marvelous: their domestic animals—sheep, oxen, camels, and little ponies—are fed on fish. They are reduced to this diet because in all this country and in all the surrounding regions there is no grass; but it is the driest place in the world.

Which details from the text best support the author's purpose to inform the reader that the islands are amazing to him? Select three options.

Which literary elements typically appear in a travelogue? Select three options.an argument supported with reasons and evidencea person's account of their experiencesa description of imaginary places and events descriptions of sights, cultures, climates, and landsdrawings, photographs, maps, or memorabilia

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.I should add that ships cannot sail to the other islands that lie farther south, beyond Madagascar and Zanzibar, because the current sets so strongly towards the south that they would have little chance of returning. Therefore they do not venture to go. You may note that ships coming from Maabar to this island make the voyage in twenty days, whereas the return trip takes them all of three months; and this is due to the continual southward set of the current. It flows in the same direction the all time—southward, ever southward. These more southerly islands, which men do not willingly visit because of this southward drift, are very numerous, and it is said that they are inhabited by gryphon birds, which make their appearance here at certain seasons of the year.