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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Each person in Melania is what?
(a) Regarded as both mother and father to everyone else.
(b) Expected to understand existence.
(c) Born into a role.
(d) Tested at the age of five.

2. In Chapter 5, as Khan sits in his palace visualizing the growth of his empire, what does he see?
(a) Conquered territories spreading further into other regions.
(b) Overpopulation leading to famine and disease.
(c) Warriors from the west coming to fight for his empire.
(d) More innovations coming from his empire's brightest minds.

3. What theme runs through Chapter 4 with regard to how Polo tells his tales?
(a) Breaking down the cities so the emperor can see them completely.
(b) Turning the cities into dreams born from imagination.
(c) Treating each city as if it was a separate star in the night sky.
(d) Fabricating stories about the cities to make them more beautiful than they are.

4. The various depictions of Fedora show what?
(a) What the city looks like at different times of the year.
(b) An idealized version of the city.
(c) Particular sections of the city.
(d) How the city appeared at different junctures in history.

5. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:
(a) Its mirror image.
(b) The future.
(c) Its monthly plays.
(d) Another dimension.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Khan dream his lands are filled with?

2. When Marco Polo first tells his tales to Kublai Khan, he uses:

3. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:

4. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?

5. When Polo goes to Hypatia, what does he learn?

(see the answer key)

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