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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Melania's population renew itself?
(a) By reciting vows at the start of each new year.
(b) Through the annual "Festival of Renewal."
(c) Through the acting out of an ongoing dialogue.
(d) By being reborn and living multiple lives.

2. In Argia, what are the streets filled with?
(a) Jewels.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Frogs.

3. The people of Adelma remind Polo of what?
(a) Friends and relatives who have died.
(b) Overstuffed toads.
(c) Princes and princesses.
(d) Spoiled children.

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) At the solstice.
(c) During the hour of the wholesale fish market.
(d) In the middle of the city's festival of light.

5. Khan wonders why Polo never speaks of:
(a) His family.
(b) Venice.
(c) Tuscan.
(d) His past studies.

6. Leandra is protected by two species, both of which are:
(a) Extraordinarily large and strong.
(b) Similar in appearance to wolves.
(c) Winged and armed with dart guns.
(d) Too tiny to be seen.

7. The houses in Argia are filled with what?
(a) Gold.
(b) Clay.
(c) Tea pots.
(d) Lizards.

8. In Chapter 5, as Khan sits in his palace visualizing the growth of his empire, what does he see?
(a) Warriors from the west coming to fight for his empire.
(b) More innovations coming from his empire's brightest minds.
(c) Overpopulation leading to famine and disease.
(d) Conquered territories spreading further into other regions.

9. Someone in Thekla will see what?
(a) Shadows drifting overhead.
(b) Very little of the city.
(c) Rows of empty flower pots.
(d) A sea of signs.

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

11. In Esmeralda, people can choose to travel by:
(a) Flying ships or water vessels.
(b) Camel or horse.
(c) Land or boat.
(d) Foot or rickshaw.

12. What does the hidden side of Moriana look like?
(a) An expanse of rusting sheet metal and pipes black with soot.
(b) A giant warehouse filled with travelers' broken dreams.
(c) A golden altar to the gods of light and darkness.
(d) A wasteland of jagged rocks and tortured souls.

13. Clarice is known for its cycle of death and rebirth and:
(a) Its adherence to the idea of reincarnation.
(b) Falling to ruin and being rebuilt.
(c) Its yearly festival honoring the dead.
(d) Burning to the ground and rising from the ashes.

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

15. When Khan travels to visit Kin-sai, what does Polo do?
(a) Warns him not to go.
(b) Accompanies him.
(c) Stays behind.
(d) Congratulates him.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the two men sit smoking their pipes, does Khan actually confront Polo?

2. When one listens to the ground in Argia, what does one hear?

3. What items from his travels does Polo spread at the feet of Khan in Chapter 8?

4. When families in Leandra move in to new houses, who follows them?

5. Esmeralda is known as the city of what?

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