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

3. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?
(a) Columns that hold nothing up.
(b) Stacks of seashells.
(c) Pipes where the houses should be.
(d) Tall, slender windmills.

4. What does Polo's recollection of the city of Zirma include?
(a) Noisy festivals and sleek sailboats.
(b) Feasting men and strong women.
(c) Palm trees and colorful tents.
(d) Flying dirigibles and tattoo parlors.

5. What tangible items do merchants trade in Euphemia?
(a) Curry powder and white and green tea.
(b) Gunpowder and fireworks.
(c) Poppy seeds, grain, and nutmeg.
(d) Silk fabrics as well as silk worms.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what do Khan's messengers warn of?
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Battles.
(c) Famines.
(d) Disease.

7. When one leaves Zenobia and travels for six days and seven nights, where would one end up?
(a) Zapata.
(b) Zoey.
(c) Zobeide.
(d) Zoroastria.

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

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

10. When Marco Polo meets with Kublai Khan, he:
(a) Asks for a leadership position in the empire.
(b) Is worried that Khan will not approve of his stories.
(c) Requests money to be able to continue his travels.
(d) Describes cities that he's visited during his travels.

11. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?
(a) Zirma.
(b) Tamara.
(c) Laura.
(d) Isaura.

12. Polo says that Zaira is defined by:
(a) Its relationships between measurements of its space and the events of its past.
(b) The relationship between its people and the beautiful gardens they tend.
(c) Its people, who are exquisitely beautiful yet age too quickly.
(d) An imposing, gleaming white building in the central plaza.

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

14. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every full moon.
(b) Every solstice and equinox.
(c) Immediately following the harvest.
(d) The first of the year.

15. At the conclusion of Chapter 1, Khan is completely satisfied with Polo's explanations but still remembers what?
(a) The symbols and emblems Polo once used.
(b) How ridiculous Polo looked when he used more gestures.
(c) To pretend to question Polo's accuracy.
(d) That Polo used to lie to him.