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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?
(a) Columns that hold nothing up.
(b) Pipes where the houses should be.
(c) Stacks of seashells.
(d) Tall, slender windmills.

2. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?
(a) Tamara.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Zora.

3. The people in the city of Irene are:
(a) Dwarfs.
(b) Trapped.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Giants.

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

5. In Clarice, people take parts of the old city and use them in different ways for what?
(a) Decorating their homes and gardens.
(b) Building the new city.
(c) Creating tools for growing crops and hunting.
(d) Building musical instruments.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the people of Chloe lock eyes with each other for a moment, what do they do?

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

4. When Polo tells his tales while enjoying the evening breeze as he sits on a doorstep, what does he explain to Khan?

5. When Marco Polo meets with Kublai Khan, he:

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