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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo explains that if he describes Olivia as rich in products and profits, the emperor should realize that:
(a) Ash falls regularly on the streets and rivers from the efforts of its industrious people.
(b) It is one of the most prosperous and exotic cities in the empire.
(c) Its people are well off and need to share their riches with others in the empire.
(d) The city also contains fine palaces, exotic creatures, soot , grease, and desperation.

2. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?
(a) Isidora.
(b) Diomira.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Dorothea.

3. What does Polo explain that Zemrude's form is based on?
(a) The dream of the dreamer.
(b) The hope of its people.
(c) The orientation of the sky.
(d) The traveler's mood.

4. What does the hidden side of Moriana look like?
(a) A wasteland of jagged rocks and tortured souls.
(b) A giant warehouse filled with travelers' broken dreams.
(c) A golden altar to the gods of light and darkness.
(d) An expanse of rusting sheet metal and pipes black with soot.

5. In Hypatia, when Polo wants to see the sultan at the palace, who is he allowed to question instead?
(a) The second in command.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Servants.
(d) The sultan's shoemaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the people of Ersilia move and the city is in ruins, what are left?

2. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?

3. In Esmeralda, who moves through the sewers with the rats?

4. Khan wonders why Polo never speaks of:

5. The more Khan listens to Polo's stories, the less certain he is that he is sitting in the garden or:

(see the answer key)

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