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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Octavia known as?
(a) The land of lost dreams.
(b) Home of the forgotten children.
(c) The spider-web city.
(d) The city of mist.

2. Why does Khan wonder when Polo actually has time to travel to far-off cities?
(a) He frequently spots Polo entertaining friends in Khan's city.
(b) It appears Polo has never moved from Khan's garden.
(c) Polo is too busy writing down his travel accounts.
(d) Polo is too busy with his job of head counselor.

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

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

5. Where is the city of Valdrada built?
(a) On the top of a mesa.
(b) At the edge of a dense forest.
(c) In a fertile valley.
(d) On the shores of a lake.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?

3. To make the passing from life to death less abrupt, what have the people of Eusapia done?

4. When families in Leandra move in to new houses, who follows them?

5. Who tells Polo in Hypatia that, "signs form a language, but not the one you know."

(see the answer key)

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