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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?
(a) Columns that hold nothing up.
(b) Stacks of seashells.
(c) Pipes where the houses should be.
(d) Tall, slender windmills.

2. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:
(a) Its relationships between measurements of its space and the events of its past.
(b) The relationship between its people and the beautiful gardens they tend.
(c) Its people, who are exquisitely beautiful yet age too quickly.
(d) An imposing, gleaming white building in the central plaza.

3. Which city do visitors consider to be a trap?
(a) Zenobia.
(b) Zobeide.
(c) Valdrada.
(d) Armilla.

4. At the conclusion of Chapter 1, Khan is completely satisfied with Polo's explanations but still remembers what?
(a) That Polo used to lie to him.
(b) How ridiculous Polo looked when he used more gestures.
(c) To pretend to question Polo's accuracy.
(d) The symbols and emblems Polo once used.

5. What's missing in Armilla?
(a) A comprehensible language.
(b) Law and order.
(c) Roads.
(d) Walls, ceilings, and floors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

2. At times, Polo and Khan sit quietly to:

3. Maurilia was once:

4. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?

5. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?

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