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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:
(a) Flapping curtains, fountains, and windowsills.
(b) Busy markets and bustling streets.
(c) Walls with gaping holes.
(d) Windmills and bright flowers.

2. After the people of Ersilia move and the city is in ruins, what are left?
(a) Memories.
(b) Chains.
(c) Webs.
(d) Whispers.

3. What do the people of Beersheba believe?
(a) Their emperor favors Beersheba above all other cities.
(b) They are descended from ancient gods.
(c) Another Beersheba exists, suspended in the heavens.
(d) They are living in a dream.

4. When one listens to the ground in Argia, what does one hear?
(a) The sound of engines.
(b) Music.
(c) A bell ring.
(d) A door slam.

5. What is Laudomia made up of?
(a) Paper-thin houses.
(b) A palace, a park, and a school.
(c) Cement.
(d) Three cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Khan wonders why Polo never speaks of:

2. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?

3. Polo tells Khan that it is possible the whole world is covered with what?

4. Khan tells Polo about his dreams of a city where the farewells from its harbor are what?

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

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