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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the people of Chloe lock eyes with each other for a moment, what do they do?
(a) Bow repeatedly.
(b) Invite each other for a visit.
(c) Move away without stopping.
(d) Approach to shake hands.

2. After Khan sends Polo on many missions, Polo learns:
(a) The cooking techniques of the Mongols.
(b) How to sail virtually any type of ship.
(c) The language of the Tartars.
(d) To become an expert negotiator.

3. When Polo first communicates with Khan, the emperor is able to:
(a) Look interested despite being bored.
(b) Comprehend his unusual accent.
(c) Understand everything completely.
(d) Decipher his signs.

4. Polo understands that when he has irritated Khan, the emperor will:
(a) Signal the conversation to end immediately.
(b) Get up and storm off.
(c) Offer subtle cues that Polo needs to leave.
(d) Need to be left alone with his thoughts.

5. What city is found 80 miles northwest of Zenobia?
(a) Euphemia.
(b) Euphrates.
(c) Eugenia.
(d) Eureka.

6. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?
(a) It will one day serve as the capital of the empire.
(b) Polo urges Khan to begin building it in the spring.
(c) He explains to the emperor that this would be a very impractical city.
(d) It is nameless and has no location, existing only as a dream does.

7. If a traveler walks into Zemrude with his head held high, how does he see the city?
(a) Vibrant.
(b) Directly in front.
(c) From below.
(d) Through a mist.

8. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:
(a) Its mirror image.
(b) Another dimension.
(c) Its monthly plays.
(d) The future.

9. The people of Valdrada know their actions are repeated:
(a) In the mirror image of the lake.
(b) By actors performing in monthly plays.
(c) By their descendents.
(d) In a parallel dimension.

10. Polo explains that if he describes Olivia as rich in products and profits, the emperor should realize that:
(a) Ash falls regularly on the streets and rivers from the efforts of its industrious people.
(b) It is one of the most prosperous and exotic cities in the empire.
(c) Its people are well off and need to share their riches with others in the empire.
(d) The city also contains fine palaces, exotic creatures, soot , grease, and desperation.

11. When describing the cities of Eutropia, Polo explains that:
(a) All were once destroyed by a large earthquake.
(b) Its inhabitants are unusually tall.
(c) Each one is ruled by a benevolent elder.
(d) Only one is inhabited at a time.

12. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?
(a) The level of dissent in each city of the empire.
(b) Military strength of every location.
(c) Amount of happiness left in the empire.
(d) Wealth of each region.

13. Polo first describes the city of Diomira to Khan as:
(a) Gaudy and loud, with ridiculous artwork.
(b) A quiet place full of intelligent, inquisitive people and lush gardens.
(c) Filled with beautiful items, including silver domed buildings and bronze statues.
(d) Desperately in need of revitalization.

14. What's missing in Armilla?
(a) Roads.
(b) Law and order.
(c) Walls, ceilings, and floors.
(d) A comprehensible language.

15. According to Polo, what is found in half of Sophronia?
(a) Markets selling the riches of the world.
(b) A fair with a roller coaster, carousel, and ferris wheel.
(c) An observatory with a large telescope and wise astrologers.
(d) Tent cities with the poorest of the poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the emperor tells Polo that he's dreamed up a city and describes it, what does Polo reply?

2. Whenever the emperor is in a good mood and says how splendid his empire is, he wants to know why Polo:

3. Which city has supposedly languished and deteriorated, forgotten by the earth?

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

5. By dissecting each city, what is Polo is trying to explain to Khan?

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