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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can the reader tell with certainty whether or not Polo's many cities actually exist?
(a) Yes, in most cases.
(b) Only in a handful of cases.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

2. 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) Something about their glances.
(d) The way everyone lives in close, tight-knit communities.

3. When Marco Polo first tells his tales to Kublai Khan, he uses:
(a) A language Khan developed.
(b) Large words to impress Khan.
(c) Gestures and pantomimes.
(d) An interpreter.

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

5. Raissa is an unhappy city that contains what?
(a) An art collection that's visible to residents and invisible to travelers.
(b) A happy city that's unaware of its own existence.
(c) A blueprint to the heart of every resident.
(d) A museum that displays the melancholy of the past and the uncertainty of the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polo gives Khan impressions of:

2. As he travels through Adelma, what does Polo wonder?

3. In Eusapia, what is there really is no way of knowing anymore?

4. What items from his travels does Polo spread at the feet of Khan in Chapter 8?

5. What group of people create the rules for Perinthia?

(see the answer key)

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