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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The more Khan listens to Polo's stories, the less certain he is that he is sitting in the garden or:
(a) Locked up in a mental health hospital.
(b) Dreaming in his sleep.
(c) Sitting in a prison.
(d) Riding through places Polo describes.

2. Polo explains that the city Khan dreams of with the farewells from its harbor has one secret. What is it?
(a) It is a phantom city born of nymphs' imaginations.
(b) Its residents suffer from a rare, mysterious disease.
(c) Other cities bring their prisoners here.
(d) It knows about departures but not returns.

3. What do the people of Beersheba believe?
(a) They are descended from ancient gods.
(b) Another Beersheba exists, suspended in the heavens.
(c) Their emperor favors Beersheba above all other cities.
(d) They are living in a dream.

4. Who tells Polo in Hypatia that, "signs form a language, but not the one you know."
(a) The sultan's eldest son.
(b) The sultan.
(c) One of the servants.
(d) One of the philosphers.

5. Each person in Melania is what?
(a) Tested at the age of five.
(b) Expected to understand existence.
(c) Born into a role.
(d) Regarded as both mother and father to everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo tells Khan that he feels this way about the things he saw in Hypatia:

2. What is one of Khan's biggest worries regarding his empire?

3. What does the hidden side of Moriana look like?

4. In Chapter 5, as Khan sits in his palace visualizing the growth of his empire, what does he see?

5. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?

(see the answer key)

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