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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Polo lands at the furthest city to which he's ever traveled, he arrives when?
(a) In the middle of the city's festival of light.
(b) At the solstice.
(c) During the hour of the wholesale fish market.
(d) At the start of the harvest.

2. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?
(a) He's too shy to speak directly to the emperor.
(b) He wants to make it more challenging for Khan.
(c) He's eccentric and mischievous.
(d) He cannot speak Khan's language.

3. 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) Philosophers.
(c) Servants.
(d) The second in command.

4. As Kublai Khan listens to the reports of his envoys and tax collectors while walking through his garden, his messengers speak in languages that:
(a) Are understood only by members of royalty.
(b) He doesn't understand.
(c) He developed.
(d) They made up.

5. What does the hidden side of Moriana look like?
(a) A giant warehouse filled with travelers' broken dreams.
(b) An expanse of rusting sheet metal and pipes black with soot.
(c) A wasteland of jagged rocks and tortured souls.
(d) A golden altar to the gods of light and darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo lays assorted items at the feet of Khan and uses them for what?

2. What is Esmeralda layered with?

3. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?

4. Polo gives Khan impressions of:

5. Esmeralda is known as the city of what?

(see the answer key)

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