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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eutropia composed of?
(a) Three cities separated from each other by a lake.
(b) One large city surrounding a smaller city.
(c) Island cities within a vast lake.
(d) A number of equally sized cities.

2. When strangers arrive to Zobeide, what impression do they have of the city?
(a) It looks like a piece of heaven.
(b) They feel a deep longing in their hearts.
(c) They've seen this place before in their dreams.
(d) They do not understand what drew people here.

3. Whenever the emperor is in a good mood and says how splendid his empire is, he wants to know why Polo:
(a) Has stopped traveling.
(b) Criticizes the people of his empire.
(c) Focuses on inessential and disappointing things.
(d) Doesn't bring back more souvenirs.

4. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Anastasia.
(c) Zora.
(d) Tamara.

5. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?
(a) Because of high tides.
(b) Because the previous ruler was mad.
(c) For protection against seasonal floods.
(d) Nobody remembers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?

2. When he is quiet, what does Polo sometimes imagine?

3. The "white city" described by Polo is:

4. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?

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

(see the answer key)

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