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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:
(a) Walls with gaping holes.
(b) Flapping curtains, fountains, and windowsills.
(c) Windmills and bright flowers.
(d) Busy markets and bustling streets.

2. Who tells Polo in Hypatia that, "signs form a language, but not the one you know."
(a) The sultan's eldest son.
(b) The sultan.
(c) One of the philosphers.
(d) One of the servants.

3. Of what use are Polo's tales to the emperor?
(a) To keep him calm and stable in light of financial troubles.
(b) To serve as nothing more than entertainment.
(c) To keep him from getting depressed.
(d) To help him connect to distant places he will never see.

4. Polo tells Khan that he feels this way about the things he saw in Hypatia:
(a) Uplifted.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Cheated.
(d) Entranced.

5. By dissecting each city, what is Polo is trying to explain to Khan?
(a) That beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(b) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.
(c) That there is good and bad within each city.
(d) That not every city within the empire is relevant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo describes a city with two forms of religion. In one, the gods live in a subterranean lake. In the other, the gods live where?

2. Worried about his own empire, Khan begins to dream of cities that are:

3. In Chapter 5, as Khan sits in his palace visualizing the growth of his empire, what does he see?

4. When describing the cities of Eutropia, Polo explains that:

5. Once Polo is able to speak a language that Khan understands, he can:

(see the answer key)

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