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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city do visitors consider to be a trap?
(a) Zenobia.
(b) Armilla.
(c) Zobeide.
(d) Valdrada.

2. Worried about his own empire, Khan begins to dream of cities that are:
(a) Light as feathers and transparent.
(b) Indestructible.
(c) Just starting to grow.
(d) Protected by solid stone walls.

3. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?
(a) Laura.
(b) Zirma.
(c) Isaura.
(d) Tamara.

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?
(a) Statues and monuments.
(b) The blades of windmills.
(c) The top of the volcanic mountain.
(d) Clouds that bring rain.

5. Polo wants to inform the emperor how much darkness is out there by focusing on:
(a) Remnants of past glory.
(b) Small glimmers of light.
(c) Traitors and those who speak poison.
(d) The debauchery of each region.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most inhabitants of Eudoxia believe that the pattern of its carpet is:

2. When Polo describes a bridge made of stone, Khan wants to know:

3. What city is found 80 miles northwest of Zenobia?

4. When Khan says that he has a model city in his mind, he explains that from that city, he can:

5. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:

(see the answer key)

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