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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theme runs through Chapter 4 with regard to how Polo tells his tales?
(a) Turning the cities into dreams born from imagination.
(b) Treating each city as if it was a separate star in the night sky.
(c) Fabricating stories about the cities to make them more beautiful than they are.
(d) Breaking down the cities so the emperor can see them completely.

2. According to Polo, what is found in half of Sophronia?
(a) An observatory with a large telescope and wise astrologers.
(b) Tent cities with the poorest of the poor.
(c) A fair with a roller coaster, carousel, and ferris wheel.
(d) Markets selling the riches of the world.

3. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Diomira.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Isidora.

4. What types of objects are found in Clarice's museums?
(a) Paintings of everything that has ever existed in the city.
(b) Only things of unsurpassed beauty.
(c) Nothing--the museums are empty.
(d) Random artifacts, such as baskets and urns.

5. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:
(a) Windmills and bright flowers.
(b) Walls with gaping holes.
(c) Busy markets and bustling streets.
(d) Flapping curtains, fountains, and windowsills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Octavia known as?

2. In Eusapia, what is there really is no way of knowing anymore?

3. The form of the city of Eudoxia is preserved in a carpet. When someone who is lost stares at this carpet, what happens?

4. When Polo finds Khan seated at a chessboard, what does the emperor invite Polo to do?

5. The people of Baucis have:

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