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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the city with the large metal building in its center, what's inside each room of the building?
(a) A large, blue globe showing a different model of the city.
(b) Statuettes in honor of the city's past leaders.
(c) Scrolls that tell of the city's history.
(d) Stores of food in case of famine.

2. Polo understands that when he has irritated Khan, the emperor will:
(a) Need to be left alone with his thoughts.
(b) Offer subtle cues that Polo needs to leave.
(c) Get up and storm off.
(d) Signal the conversation to end immediately.

3. When Marco Polo first tells his tales to Kublai Khan, he uses:
(a) Large words to impress Khan.
(b) Gestures and pantomimes.
(c) A language Khan developed.
(d) An interpreter.

4. Which city is described as a place where traitors are strung from lampposts and old men sit on docks, telling stories while mending fishing nets?
(a) Isidora.
(b) Zirma.
(c) Zaira.
(d) Anastasia.

5. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:
(a) Its relationships between measurements of its space and the events of its past.
(b) The relationship between its people and the beautiful gardens they tend.
(c) Its people, who are exquisitely beautiful yet age too quickly.
(d) An imposing, gleaming white building in the central plaza.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?

5. Maurilia was once:

(see the answer key)

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