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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As he travels through Adelma, what does Polo wonder?
(a) If he resembles someone who is already dead to the people there.
(b) Where all the children have gone to.
(c) Why there are more men than women there.
(d) If those he encounters are real people or ghosts.

3. When Polo describes a bridge made of stone, Khan wants to know:
(a) How many stones are in the bridge.
(b) How large the stones are.
(c) Whether the stones are rough or smooth.
(d) Which stone supports the bridge.

4. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:
(a) Its relationships between measurements of its space and the events of its past.
(b) An imposing, gleaming white building in the central plaza.
(c) The relationship between its people and the beautiful gardens they tend.
(d) Its people, who are exquisitely beautiful yet age too quickly.

5. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?
(a) Polo urges Khan to begin building it in the spring.
(b) It will one day serve as the capital of the empire.
(c) He explains to the emperor that this would be a very impractical city.
(d) It is nameless and has no location, existing only as a dream does.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo say that Pyrrha represents for him?

2. When families in Leandra move in to new houses, who follows them?

3. Whenever the emperor is in a good mood and says how splendid his empire is, he wants to know why Polo:

4. In Chapter 6, Polo claims that he's reached the point where, in the number of people he has known:

5. Polo explains that if he describes Olivia as rich in products and profits, the emperor should realize that:

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