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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When he is quiet, what does Polo sometimes imagine?
(a) Being in a far off land.
(b) Being in the emperor's shoes.
(c) Answering the emperor's questions.
(d) What life would be like had he not met the emperor.

3. Polo gives Khan impressions of:
(a) What other leaders think of him.
(b) His cities and their inhabitants.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) The financial state of the empire.

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

5. Which city has supposedly languished and deteriorated, forgotten by the earth?
(a) Zora.
(b) Isaura.
(c) Zirma.
(d) Tamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. When describing the cities of Eutropia, Polo explains that:

2. When Khan tells Polo that he's dreamed of a city bathed in the light of the moon, what does Polo say?

3. Which city is a gray stone metropolis with a large metal building in the center?

4. This peninsular city can be reached by ship or camel, revealing itself to travelers by both land and sea:

5. When Khan accuses Polo of lying about the state of his empire, what does Polo say?

(see the answer key)

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