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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tangible items do merchants trade in Euphemia?
(a) Curry powder and white and green tea.
(b) Silk fabrics as well as silk worms.
(c) Gunpowder and fireworks.
(d) Poppy seeds, grain, and nutmeg.

2. Where do the people of Isaura find water?
(a) Wherever they dig.
(b) In the city's aqueducts and reservoirs.
(c) From dew that forms on plants.
(d) Atop the highest mountain.

3. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?
(a) Zirma.
(b) Tamara.
(c) Isaura.
(d) Zora.

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

5. Polo states that Dorothea can be described by its canals, towers, people, and history, or how else?
(a) By the skies each evening paints.
(b) In terms of youthful memory.
(c) Through the eyes of an old woman.
(d) Through the artist's paintbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo gives Khan impressions of:

2. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:

3. Khan's messengers advise him on the price of:

4. In the city with the large metal building in its center, what's inside each room of the building?

5. When Marco Polo first tells his tales to Kublai Khan, he uses:

(see the answer key)

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