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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:
(a) Onyx and agate.
(b) Gold and sea stones.
(c) Turquoise and tin.
(d) Silver and shells.

2. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?
(a) A city like their own.
(b) Enough food on the table.
(c) A place where they are free to follow their interests.
(d) A good spouse and many children.

3. 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:
(a) Will reach a state of great enlightenment.
(b) Will be esteemed by every man, woman, and child in the empire.
(c) Will be able to teach the symbols to his many children.
(d) Will then be an emblem among the emblems.

4. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:
(a) Only what he thinks the emperor wants to hear.
(b) With an air of great authority.
(c) With a stutter.
(d) Of his own perceptions of the city.

5. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?
(a) He's eccentric and mischievous.
(b) He wants to make it more challenging for Khan.
(c) He cannot speak Khan's language.
(d) He's too shy to speak directly to the emperor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?

2. Polo gives Khan impressions of:

3. Which city stands on high pilings even though it sits on dry land?

4. 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?

5. In Armilla, what is one likely to catch a glimpse of?

(see the answer key)

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