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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of objects are found in Clarice's museums?
(a) Nothing--the museums are empty.
(b) Only things of unsurpassed beauty.
(c) Paintings of everything that has ever existed in the city.
(d) Random artifacts, such as baskets and urns.

2. Why does Khan wonder when Polo actually has time to travel to far-off cities?
(a) Polo is too busy with his job of head counselor.
(b) It appears Polo has never moved from Khan's garden.
(c) He frequently spots Polo entertaining friends in Khan's city.
(d) Polo is too busy writing down his travel accounts.

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

4. In order to really understand the language of Hypatia, what must Polo do?
(a) Better understand the hand gestures.
(b) Learn a new set of written symbols.
(c) Free himself from images.
(d) Spend at least two months there.

5. Polo says that Clarice is:
(a) The most normal city he's ever visited.
(b) A city of madmen and silent children.
(c) A glorious city with a tormented history.
(d) The future capital of the empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?

2. When Khan asks if he will finally be able to fully possess his empire after learning the meaning of all of Polo's symbols, the traveler replies that Khan:

3. In Chapter 5, as Khan sits in his palace visualizing the growth of his empire, what does he see?

4. Every change made in the city of Andria is reflected where?

5. When Polo goes to Hypatia, what does he learn?

(see the answer key)

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