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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?
(a) A place where they are free to follow their interests.
(b) Enough food on the table.
(c) A city like their own.
(d) A good spouse and many children.

2. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every full moon.
(b) Every solstice and equinox.
(c) Immediately following the harvest.
(d) The first of the year.

3. Khan tells Polo about his dreams of a city where the farewells from its harbor are what?
(a) Insincere.
(b) Joyous and celebratory.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Tearful but silent.

4. When Khan asks if he will finally be able to fully possess his empire after learning the meaning of all of Polo's symbols, the traveler replies that Khan:
(a) Will be able to teach the symbols to his many children.
(b) Will be esteemed by every man, woman, and child in the empire.
(c) Will reach a state of great enlightenment.
(d) Will then be an emblem among the emblems.

5. The "white city" described by Polo is:
(a) Based on the dream of many men.
(b) Built with seashells and white stones.
(c) Accessible by sea only.
(d) Surrounded by a tall, whitewashed wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Penates and the Lares?

2. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:

3. What theme runs through Chapter 4 with regard to how Polo tells his tales?

4. When Khan says that he has a model city in his mind, he explains that from that city, he can:

5. Someone traveling to Maurilia will be invited to what?

(see the answer key)

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