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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is found 80 miles northwest of Zenobia?
(a) Euphemia.
(b) Eureka.
(c) Eugenia.
(d) Euphrates.

2. When Polo first communicates with Khan, the emperor is able to:
(a) Look interested despite being bored.
(b) Comprehend his unusual accent.
(c) Understand everything completely.
(d) Decipher his signs.

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

4. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?
(a) Isidora.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Diomira.

5. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) The first of the year.
(b) Every solstice and equinox.
(c) Every full moon.
(d) Immediately following the harvest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the city with the large metal building in its center, what's inside each room of the building?

3. 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?

4. At the conclusion of Chapter 1, Khan is completely satisfied with Polo's explanations but still remembers what?

5. Of what use are Polo's tales to the emperor?

(see the answer key)

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