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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

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 beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(c) That not every city within the empire is relevant.
(d) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.

2. After Khan sends Polo on many missions, Polo learns:
(a) The cooking techniques of the Mongols.
(b) The language of the Tartars.
(c) How to sail virtually any type of ship.
(d) To become an expert negotiator.

3. Polo lays assorted items at the feet of Khan and uses them for what?
(a) To teach him the basics of trade.
(b) To pay for some of his travels.
(c) To impress the emperor with gifts from afar.
(d) To explain the conditions of the empire.

4. Polo wants to inform the emperor how much darkness is out there by focusing on:
(a) Small glimmers of light.
(b) The debauchery of each region.
(c) Traitors and those who speak poison.
(d) Remnants of past glory.

5. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?
(a) It will one day serve as the capital of the empire.
(b) It is nameless and has no location, existing only as a dream does.
(c) Polo urges Khan to begin building it in the spring.
(d) He explains to the emperor that this would be a very impractical city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Khan's biggest worries regarding his empire?

2. The people of Baucis have:

3. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:

4. As Kublai Khan listens to the reports of his envoys and tax collectors while walking through his garden, his messengers speak in languages that:

5. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?

(see the answer key)

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