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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?
(a) Enough food on the table.
(b) A city like their own.
(c) A place where they are free to follow their interests.
(d) A good spouse and many children.

2. 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) Tamara.
(d) Zirma.

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

4. Khan tells Polo about his dreams of a city where the farewells from its harbor are what?
(a) Insincere.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Joyous and celebratory.
(d) Tearful but silent.

5. Where is the city of Valdrada built?
(a) On the shores of a lake.
(b) At the edge of a dense forest.
(c) On the top of a mesa.
(d) In a fertile valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses Polo about Armilla?

2. Which city stands on high pilings even though it sits on dry land?

3. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what do Khan's messengers warn of?

5. What's missing in Armilla?

(see the answer key)

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