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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Eusapia, what is there really is no way of knowing anymore?
(a) How long the city has existed.
(b) How long its underground counterpart has existed.
(c) Who is alive and who is dead.
(d) Whether or not the dead truly are communicating with the living.

3. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?
(a) Stop to exchange warm greetings.
(b) Bow deeply to each other.
(c) Picture each other wearing different clothes.
(d) Imagine entire lives for each other.

4. In Hypatia, when Polo wants to see the sultan at the palace, who is he allowed to question instead?
(a) Servants.
(b) The second in command.
(c) The sultan's shoemaker.
(d) Philosophers.

5. The people of Baucis have:
(a) Incomparable courage and determination.
(b) Everything they need in the clouds.
(c) Nothing left in their storage silos.
(d) A desire to share their knowledge with their neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Khan wonder when Polo actually has time to travel to far-off cities?

3. Each person in Melania is what?

4. Worried about his own empire, Khan begins to dream of cities that are:

5. Polo says that Clarice is:

(see the answer key)

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