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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the residents of Ersilia do?
(a) Build fantastic stringed instuments.
(b) Stretch strings from the corners of their houses.
(c) Tie strings around their trees.
(d) Hang strings from the their ceilings.

2. Esmeralda is known as the city of what?
(a) Promise.
(b) Emeralds.
(c) Rainbows.
(d) Water.

3. In Esmeralda, who moves through the sewers with the rats?
(a) Conspirators and smugglers.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) The cleaning crew.
(d) Lepers.

4. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?
(a) He explains to the emperor that this would be a very impractical city.
(b) Polo urges Khan to begin building it in the spring.
(c) It is nameless and has no location, existing only as a dream does.
(d) It will one day serve as the capital of the empire.

5. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:
(a) Its mirror image.
(b) Another dimension.
(c) Its monthly plays.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?

2. The form of the city of Eudoxia is preserved in a carpet. When someone who is lost stares at this carpet, what happens?

3. After the people of Ersilia move and the city is in ruins, what are left?

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

5. Maurilia was once:

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