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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Polo describe Moriana?
(a) A peaceful place with soft cushions and comfortable beds.
(b) A confounding city filled with smoke and mirrors.
(c) A refuge for the gentle and brokenhearted.
(d) A beautiful city of coral and villas like glass aquariums.

2. What is the furthest city to which Polo has ever traveled?
(a) Pyrrha.
(b) Phyllis.
(c) Adelma.
(d) Eudoxia.

3. Someone in Thekla will see what?
(a) Very little of the city.
(b) Rows of empty flower pots.
(c) A sea of signs.
(d) Shadows drifting overhead.

4. When Polo finds Khan seated at a chessboard, what does the emperor invite Polo to do?
(a) Teach him how to play the game.
(b) Sit and play a game with him.
(c) Use the chess pieces to describe cities he has visited.
(d) Have a cup of tea while Khan finishes his game.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Khan wonders why Polo never speaks of:

2. What do the people of Beersheba believe?

3. In Esmeralda, people can choose to travel by:

4. The houses in Argia are filled with what?

5. The more Khan listens to Polo's stories, the less certain he is that he is sitting in the garden or:

Short Essay Questions

1. Leonia, the city that reinvents itself daily, is in danger of what?

2. What does Polo say to Khan when the emperor points out that he never speaks of Venice?

3. How do the people of Beersheba regard the heavenly version of their city?

4. When Polo suggests to Khan that the garden where they share stories may exist only in their minds and that, in reality, they may still be traveling, what does the emperor say?

5. Describe the significance of the strings in the city of Ersilia.

6. How does Polo use the game of chess to help Khan better understand the cities of his empire?

7. How do the cities described by Polo in Chapter 8 depict confusion?

8. How does Clarice preserve and display its history?

9. Who lives in the underground city of Eusapia, and who has access to it?

10. What are the theories regarding why the inhabitants of Baucis live up in the clouds and rarely climb down to the ground?

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