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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?
(a) It is nameless and has no location, existing only as a dream does.
(b) He explains to the emperor that this would be a very impractical city.
(c) It will one day serve as the capital of the empire.
(d) Polo urges Khan to begin building it in the spring.

2. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?
(a) Isaura.
(b) Zirma.
(c) Tamara.
(d) Zora.

3. When describing the cities of Eutropia, Polo explains that:
(a) Each one is ruled by a benevolent elder.
(b) Its inhabitants are unusually tall.
(c) Only one is inhabited at a time.
(d) All were once destroyed by a large earthquake.

4. In Hypatia, when Polo wants to see the sultan at the palace, who is he allowed to question instead?
(a) The sultan's shoemaker.
(b) The second in command.
(c) Servants.
(d) Philosophers.

5. Maurilia was once:
(a) Thoroughly devastated by a flood.
(b) A completely different city with the same name.
(c) Ruled completely by matriarchs.
(d) Completely submerged under water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a city described by Polo in Chapter 2?

2. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?

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

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

5. This peninsular city can be reached by ship or camel, revealing itself to travelers by both land and sea:

(see the answer key)

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