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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Showing Polo an atlas of promised lands, what does Khan ask the traveler to tell him?
(a) Which city of the future the empire is heading towards.
(b) Where the perfect city will be located.
(c) Where Khan should retire.
(d) Which cities will no longer exist in twenty years.

2. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?
(a) Feasting men and strong women.
(b) Flying dirigibles and tattoo parlors.
(c) Noisy festivals and sleek sailboats.
(d) Palm trees and colorful tents.

3. What group of people create the rules for Perinthia?
(a) Gardeners.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Priests.
(d) Astronomers.

4. When a traveler arrives at Phyllis, what does he decide to do?
(a) Relax in the public baths.
(b) Stay there for the rest of his life.
(c) Dance, sing, and eat.
(d) Sleep by day and explore by night.

5. When he is quiet, what does Polo sometimes imagine?
(a) What life would be like had he not met the emperor.
(b) Being in the emperor's shoes.
(c) Being in a far off land.
(d) Answering the emperor's questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the emperor and the traveler grow quiet in order to reflect on what was just said, the emperor sometimes:

2. When Khan tells Polo that he's dreamed of a city bathed in the light of the moon, what does Polo say?

3. Berenice is made up of two cities, one just and the other unjust. What waits to blossom in the city of the unjust?

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

5. Looking at Argia from above, what does one see?

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