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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By dissecting each city, what is Polo is trying to explain to Khan?
(a) That beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(b) That there is good and bad within each city.
(c) That not every city within the empire is relevant.
(d) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.

2. What does Polo explain that Zemrude's form is based on?
(a) The hope of its people.
(b) The dream of the dreamer.
(c) The orientation of the sky.
(d) The traveler's mood.

3. 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) Zaira.
(c) Zirma.
(d) Anastasia.

4. What's missing in Armilla?
(a) Law and order.
(b) Walls, ceilings, and floors.
(c) A comprehensible language.
(d) Roads.

5. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?
(a) Imagine entire lives for each other.
(b) Bow deeply to each other.
(c) Picture each other wearing different clothes.
(d) Stop to exchange warm greetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Polo is able to speak a language that Khan understands, he can:

2. At times, Polo and Khan sit quietly to:

3. Polo tells Khan that he feels this way about the things he saw in Hypatia:

4. Khan tells Polo about his dreams of a city where the farewells from its harbor are what?

5. Which city is said to be between two deserts, one of sand and one of water?

(see the answer key)

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