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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By dissecting each city, what is Polo is trying to explain to Khan?
(a) That there is good and bad within each city.
(b) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.
(c) That not every city within the empire is relevant.
(d) That beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

2. When Polo first communicates with Khan, the emperor is able to:
(a) Understand everything completely.
(b) Comprehend his unusual accent.
(c) Look interested despite being bored.
(d) Decipher his signs.

3. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?
(a) Because the previous ruler was mad.
(b) Because of high tides.
(c) Nobody remembers.
(d) For protection against seasonal floods.

4. Once Polo is able to speak a language that Khan understands, he can:
(a) Be arrogant and disagreeable.
(b) Request to go on more voyages.
(c) Demand greater pay.
(d) Be very precise in his descriptions.

5. What do the residents of Ersilia do?
(a) Hang strings from the their ceilings.
(b) Build fantastic stringed instuments.
(c) Tie strings around their trees.
(d) Stretch strings from the corners of their houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:

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

3. Which city has supposedly languished and deteriorated, forgotten by the earth?

4. When Polo speaks of Zemrude, one of the views he offers is filled with:

5. Who are the Penates and the Lares?

(see the answer key)

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