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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tangible items do merchants trade in Euphemia?
(a) Silk fabrics as well as silk worms.
(b) Curry powder and white and green tea.
(c) Gunpowder and fireworks.
(d) Poppy seeds, grain, and nutmeg.

2. When Khan asks if he will finally be able to fully possess his empire after learning the meaning of all of Polo's symbols, the traveler replies that Khan:
(a) Will then be an emblem among the emblems.
(b) Will reach a state of great enlightenment.
(c) Will be able to teach the symbols to his many children.
(d) Will be esteemed by every man, woman, and child in the empire.

3. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?
(a) Isaura.
(b) Laura.
(c) Tamara.
(d) Zirma.

4. When the emperor tells Polo that he's dreamed up a city and describes it, what does Polo reply?
(a) It's the most fantastic city Polo has ever heard of.
(b) It's the city Polo was just describing.
(c) He asks to not be interrupted again.
(d) He praises the emperor's wit and imagination.

5. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?
(a) He cannot speak Khan's language.
(b) He wants to make it more challenging for Khan.
(c) He's too shy to speak directly to the emperor.
(d) He's eccentric and mischievous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo first describes the city of Diomira to Khan as:

2. Maurilia was once:

3. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

4. When Polo first communicates with Khan, the emperor is able to:

5. Polo describes a city with two forms of religion. In one, the gods live in a subterranean lake. In the other, the gods live where?

(see the answer key)

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