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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. If a traveler to Thekla asks why the construction is never done, what answer will he hear?
(a) In order to confuse the spirits.
(b) They are waiting for the architect to return.
(c) Nobody knows why.
(d) So that the destruction can't start.

3. Who tells Polo in Hypatia that, "signs form a language, but not the one you know."
(a) One of the servants.
(b) The sultan.
(c) The sultan's eldest son.
(d) One of the philosphers.

4. When Polo lands at the furthest city to which he's ever traveled, he arrives when?
(a) At the start of the harvest.
(b) During the hour of the wholesale fish market.
(c) At the solstice.
(d) In the middle of the city's festival of light.

5. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?
(a) Great warriors train here.
(b) They are most welcoming to newcomers.
(c) They are strangers to each other.
(d) Everyone here is a teacher of some type.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, Polo claims that he's reached the point where, in the number of people he has known:

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

3. When Khan says that he has a model city in his mind, he explains that from that city, he can:

4. To make the passing from life to death less abrupt, what have the people of Eusapia done?

5. Looking at Argia from above, what does one see?

(see the answer key)

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