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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every solstice and equinox.
(b) Immediately following the harvest.
(c) Every full moon.
(d) The first of the year.

2. Polo states that Dorothea can be described by its canals, towers, people, and history, or how else?
(a) In terms of youthful memory.
(b) Through the eyes of an old woman.
(c) By the skies each evening paints.
(d) Through the artist's paintbrush.

3. Each person in Melania is what?
(a) Tested at the age of five.
(b) Expected to understand existence.
(c) Regarded as both mother and father to everyone else.
(d) Born into a role.

4. The form of the city of Eudoxia is preserved in a carpet. When someone who is lost stares at this carpet, what happens?
(a) A guide appears to lead the lost sojourner home.
(b) One enters a state of deep sleep.
(c) One becomes hopelessly lost.
(d) The carpet reveals the exact street on which one stands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?

2. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?

3. When Polo tells his tales while enjoying the evening breeze as he sits on a doorstep, what does he explain to Khan?

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

5. What do the residents of Ersilia do?

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