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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Khan is on the verge of:
(a) Appointing a new emperor.
(b) Growing impatient with Polo and his stories.
(c) A nervous breakdown.
(d) Understanding the rise and fall of a city.

2. Polo explains that the city Khan dreams of with the farewells from its harbor has one secret. What is it?
(a) Its residents suffer from a rare, mysterious disease.
(b) It is a phantom city born of nymphs' imaginations.
(c) Other cities bring their prisoners here.
(d) It knows about departures but not returns.

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 beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(d) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.

4. When one leaves Zenobia and travels for six days and seven nights, where would one end up?
(a) Zoey.
(b) Zobeide.
(c) Zoroastria.
(d) Zapata.

5. At Euphemia, how many different nations gather to trade?
(a) Forty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?

2. How does Polo describe the city of Olinda?

3. What creates connections between lives in Chloe?

4. When Polo lands at the furthest city to which he's ever traveled, he arrives when?

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

(see the answer key)

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