Invisible Cities Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Invisible Cities Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice 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:
(a) He developed.
(b) They made up.
(c) He doesn't understand.
(d) Are understood only by members of royalty.

2. In Chapter 6, Polo claims that he's reached the point where, in the number of people he has known:
(a) The dead outnumber the living.
(b) Very few are worth remembering.
(c) He recalls all faces but few names.
(d) His friends outnumber his enemies.

3. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?
(a) Military strength of every location.
(b) Wealth of each region.
(c) The level of dissent in each city of the empire.
(d) Amount of happiness left in the empire.

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

5. The form of the city of Eudoxia is preserved in a carpet. When someone who is lost stares at this carpet, what happens?
(a) One becomes hopelessly lost.
(b) The carpet reveals the exact street on which one stands.
(c) One enters a state of deep sleep.
(d) A guide appears to lead the lost sojourner home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whenever the emperor is in a good mood and says how splendid his empire is, he wants to know why Polo:

2. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?

3. What types of objects are found in Clarice's museums?

4. To make the passing from life to death less abrupt, what have the people of Eusapia done?

5. What happens to the city of Irene as one approaches it?

(see the answer key)

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