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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city do visitors consider to be a trap?
(a) Valdrada.
(b) Zenobia.
(c) Armilla.
(d) Zobeide.

2. What confuses Polo about Armilla?
(a) He can't tell if the people are welcoming him or waiting for him to leave.
(b) He doesn't know whether it's unfinished or has been demolished.
(c) Why everyone living here is so young.
(d) Where its source of water is located.

3. Polo tells Khan that it is possible the whole world is covered with what?
(a) Gold and dust.
(b) Illusions and dreams.
(c) Hope and despair.
(d) Wastelands and gardens.

4. How does Melania's population renew itself?
(a) Through the acting out of an ongoing dialogue.
(b) By being reborn and living multiple lives.
(c) By reciting vows at the start of each new year.
(d) Through the annual "Festival of Renewal."

5. Who are honored throughout Leonia?
(a) Elders.
(b) Clock makers.
(c) Travelers.
(d) Street cleaners.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people of Baucis have:

2. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:

3. When the emperor tells Polo that he's dreamed up a city and describes it, what does Polo reply?

4. Polo says that Clarice is:

5. Who are the Penates and the Lares?

(see the answer key)

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