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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When strangers arrive to Zobeide, what impression do they have of the city?
(a) They've seen this place before in their dreams.
(b) It looks like a piece of heaven.
(c) They feel a deep longing in their hearts.
(d) They do not understand what drew people here.

2. What creates connections between lives in Chloe?
(a) The city's 103-year-old patriarch.
(b) The way everyone lives in close, tight-knit communities.
(c) Something about their glances.
(d) The fact that everyone is related to everyone else in some way.

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

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

5. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?
(a) Zirma.
(b) Tamara.
(c) Zora.
(d) Isaura.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a traveler arrives at Phyllis, what does he decide to do?

2. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

3. Polo tells Khan that he feels this way about the things he saw in Hypatia:

4. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?

5. Polo understands that when he has irritated Khan, the emperor will:

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