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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The various depictions of Fedora show what?
(a) How the city appeared at different junctures in history.
(b) What the city looks like at different times of the year.
(c) An idealized version of the city.
(d) Particular sections of the city.

2. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:
(a) With an air of great authority.
(b) With a stutter.
(c) Only what he thinks the emperor wants to hear.
(d) Of his own perceptions of the city.

3. What tangible items do merchants trade in Euphemia?
(a) Silk fabrics as well as silk worms.
(b) Poppy seeds, grain, and nutmeg.
(c) Curry powder and white and green tea.
(d) Gunpowder and fireworks.

4. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?
(a) They are strangers to each other.
(b) Everyone here is a teacher of some type.
(c) Great warriors train here.
(d) They are most welcoming to newcomers.

5. What creates connections between lives in Chloe?
(a) The fact that everyone is related to everyone else in some way.
(b) The way everyone lives in close, tight-knit communities.
(c) Something about their glances.
(d) The city's 103-year-old patriarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?

2. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

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

4. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?

5. At Euphemia, how many different nations gather to trade?

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