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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo gives Khan impressions of:
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) The financial state of the empire.
(c) What other leaders think of him.
(d) His cities and their inhabitants.

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

3. Which city do visitors consider to be a trap?
(a) Zobeide.
(b) Valdrada.
(c) Zenobia.
(d) Armilla.

4. What confuses Polo about Armilla?
(a) Where its source of water is located.
(b) Why everyone living here is so young.
(c) He doesn't know whether it's unfinished or has been demolished.
(d) He can't tell if the people are welcoming him or waiting for him to leave.

5. Polo tells Khan that the second half of Sophronia is filled with what?
(a) Universities, observatories, and libraries.
(b) Factories, palaces, slaughterhouses, and schools.
(c) Markets, hen houses, silkworm farms, and poppy fields.
(d) Gardens, statues, and fountains.

6. If a traveler walks into Zemrude with his head held high, how does he see the city?
(a) Through a mist.
(b) From below.
(c) Vibrant.
(d) Directly in front.

7. When the emperor and the traveler grow quiet in order to reflect on what was just said, the emperor sometimes:
(a) Imagines Polo answering his questions.
(b) Weeps quietly.
(c) Clears his throat loudly.
(d) Stares at Polo piercingly.

8. After Khan sends Polo on many missions, Polo learns:
(a) How to sail virtually any type of ship.
(b) The cooking techniques of the Mongols.
(c) To become an expert negotiator.
(d) The language of the Tartars.

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

10. When Marco Polo meets with Kublai Khan, he:
(a) Is worried that Khan will not approve of his stories.
(b) Asks for a leadership position in the empire.
(c) Describes cities that he's visited during his travels.
(d) Requests money to be able to continue his travels.

11. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?
(a) They are strangers to each other.
(b) Great warriors train here.
(c) Everyone here is a teacher of some type.
(d) They are most welcoming to newcomers.

12. Which city is said to be between two deserts, one of sand and one of water?
(a) Isidora.
(b) Zaira.
(c) Despina.
(d) Diomira.

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

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

15. When Polo tells his tales while enjoying the evening breeze as he sits on a doorstep, what does he explain to Khan?
(a) His traveling days may soon come to an end.
(b) The cool air clears his mind and keeps him awake.
(c) This reminds him of a time from one of his past travels.
(d) The setting they're in will affect how the tale is remembered.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Kublai Khan listens to the reports of his envoys and tax collectors while walking through his garden, his messengers speak in languages that:

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

3. When Khan says that he has a model city in his mind, he explains that from that city, he can:

4. In Hypatia, when Polo wants to see the sultan at the palace, who is he allowed to question instead?

5. Polo states that Dorothea can be described by its canals, towers, people, and history, or how else?

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