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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo tells Khan that the second half of Sophronia is filled with what?
(a) Factories, palaces, slaughterhouses, and schools.
(b) Universities, observatories, and libraries.
(c) Markets, hen houses, silkworm farms, and poppy fields.
(d) Gardens, statues, and fountains.

2. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?
(a) Because of high tides.
(b) Because the previous ruler was mad.
(c) Nobody remembers.
(d) For protection against seasonal floods.

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

4. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?
(a) Noisy festivals and sleek sailboats.
(b) Feasting men and strong women.
(c) Palm trees and colorful tents.
(d) Flying dirigibles and tattoo parlors.

5. When describing the cities of Eutropia, Polo explains that:
(a) Each one is ruled by a benevolent elder.
(b) Only one is inhabited at a time.
(c) Its inhabitants are unusually tall.
(d) All were once destroyed by a large earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Kublai Khan listens to the reports of his envoys and tax collectors while walking through his garden, his messengers speak in languages that:

2. Polo describes a city with two forms of religion. In one, the gods live in a subterranean lake. In the other, the gods live where?

3. The various depictions of Fedora show what?

4. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:

5. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?

(see the answer key)

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