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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?
(a) Military strength of every location.
(b) The level of dissent in each city of the empire.
(c) Wealth of each region.
(d) Amount of happiness left in the empire.

3. The people in the city of Irene are:
(a) Trapped.
(b) Giants.
(c) Dwarfs.
(d) Enlightened.

4. Leandra is protected by two species, both of which are:
(a) Extraordinarily large and strong.
(b) Winged and armed with dart guns.
(c) Similar in appearance to wolves.
(d) Too tiny to be seen.

5. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?
(a) Nobody remembers.
(b) Because the previous ruler was mad.
(c) Because of high tides.
(d) For protection against seasonal floods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?

2. Polo states that Dorothea can be described by its canals, towers, people, and history, or how else?

3. What is at the center of Moriana?

4. Which city do visitors consider to be a trap?

5. Why does Khan wonder when Polo actually has time to travel to far-off cities?

(see the answer key)

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