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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) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only in a handful of cases.
(d) Yes, in most cases.

2. When Polo speaks of Zemrude, one of the views he offers is filled with:
(a) Old men and women with vacant eyes.
(b) Beggars, thieves, and tax collectors.
(c) Staircases that go nowhere.
(d) Gutters, fish scales, and trash.

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

4. What does a traveler arriving to Baucis see?
(a) Blue arches.
(b) Rope bridges.
(c) Slender stilts.
(d) Golden stairs.

5. This peninsular city can be reached by ship or camel, revealing itself to travelers by both land and sea:
(a) Despina.
(b) Irma.
(c) Isaura.
(d) Tamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Argia, what are the streets filled with?

2. Polo describes a city with two forms of religion. In one, the gods live in a subterranean lake. In the other, the gods live where?

3. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:

4. When Polo speaks of a city, he speaks:

5. What is Eutropia composed of?

(see the answer key)

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