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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maurilia was once:
(a) Completely submerged under water.
(b) Thoroughly devastated by a flood.
(c) Ruled completely by matriarchs.
(d) A completely different city with the same name.

2. When Polo speaks of Zemrude, one of the views he offers is filled with:
(a) Staircases that go nowhere.
(b) Gutters, fish scales, and trash.
(c) Old men and women with vacant eyes.
(d) Beggars, thieves, and tax collectors.

3. Once Polo is able to speak a language that Khan understands, he can:
(a) Request to go on more voyages.
(b) Demand greater pay.
(c) Be very precise in his descriptions.
(d) Be arrogant and disagreeable.

4. 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) To pretend to question Polo's accuracy.
(d) The symbols and emblems Polo once used.

5. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?
(a) Wealth of each region.
(b) Amount of happiness left in the empire.
(c) Military strength of every location.
(d) The level of dissent in each city of the empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a traveler walks into Zemrude with his head held down by grief, how will he see the city?

2. When the emperor tells Polo that he's dreamed up a city and describes it, what does Polo reply?

3. Where is the city of Valdrada built?

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

5. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:

(see the answer key)

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