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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Anastasia.
(c) Tamara.
(d) Zora.

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

3. At the conclusion of Chapter 1, Khan is completely satisfied with Polo's explanations but still remembers what?
(a) That Polo used to lie to him.
(b) How ridiculous Polo looked when he used more gestures.
(c) The symbols and emblems Polo once used.
(d) To pretend to question Polo's accuracy.

4. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?
(a) Isaura.
(b) Zora.
(c) Zirma.
(d) Tamara.

5. As Kublai Khan listens to the reports of his envoys and tax collectors while walking through his garden, his messengers speak in languages that:
(a) He doesn't understand.
(b) He developed.
(c) Are understood only by members of royalty.
(d) They made up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Khan listen to Polo's stories so intently?

2. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:

3. The various depictions of Fedora show what?

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

5. When Polo tells his tales while enjoying the evening breeze as he sits on a doorstep, what does he explain to Khan?

(see the answer key)

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