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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Eutropia composed of?
(a) A number of equally sized cities.
(b) Island cities within a vast lake.
(c) One large city surrounding a smaller city.
(d) Three cities separated from each other by a lake.

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

4. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every solstice and equinox.
(b) Immediately following the harvest.
(c) Every full moon.
(d) The first of the year.

5. When Khan accuses Polo of lying about the state of his empire, what does Polo say?
(a) If the emperor does not want to hear the truth, then Polo's travels and tales will end.
(b) He has embellished every story in order to make it more appealing for the emperor.
(c) He agrees the empire is sick and explains that is why he travels to the distant places.
(d) He insists that he has never, and never will, lie to the emperor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

2. At the conclusion of Chapter 1, Khan is completely satisfied with Polo's explanations but still remembers what?

3. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:

4. In Hypatia, when Polo wants to see the sultan at the palace, who is he allowed to question instead?

5. When Polo goes to Hypatia, what does he learn?

(see the answer key)

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