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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:
(a) Flapping curtains, fountains, and windowsills.
(b) Windmills and bright flowers.
(c) Busy markets and bustling streets.
(d) Walls with gaping holes.

2. Someone traveling to Maurilia will be invited to what?
(a) Stay and relax for three days.
(b) Dine with the city's group of elders.
(c) Offer a gift to the city's ruler.
(d) Enjoy the current city while hearing of its past.

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

4. 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 not every city within the empire is relevant.
(d) That there is good and bad within each city.

5. Which city stands on high pilings even though it sits on dry land?
(a) Chernobia.
(b) Algoria.
(c) Zamoria.
(d) Zenobia.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a traveler walks into Zemrude with his head held high, how does he see the city?

2. When Khan asks if he will finally be able to fully possess his empire after learning the meaning of all of Polo's symbols, the traveler replies that Khan:

3. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?

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

5. When he is quiet, what does Polo sometimes imagine?

(see the answer key)

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