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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the center of Moriana?
(a) Nothing--the city only has front and back sides.
(b) An enormous hole plunging into the depths of the earth.
(c) It is hard to tell--there is too much smoke everywhere.
(d) A strange contraption that controls the thoughts of its residents.

2. If someone wants to see the blueprint for the city of Thekla, what will he be told?
(a) To come back after the working day.
(b) The blueprint was lost in a fire.
(c) It is buried deep beneath the city.
(d) The blueprint changes from one hour to the next.

3. Looking at Argia from above, what does one see?
(a) Green rooftops.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Snakes.

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

5. As he travels through Adelma, what does Polo wonder?
(a) If he resembles someone who is already dead to the people there.
(b) Where all the children have gone to.
(c) Why there are more men than women there.
(d) If those he encounters are real people or ghosts.

6. The people of Baucis have:
(a) Everything they need in the clouds.
(b) Incomparable courage and determination.
(c) A desire to share their knowledge with their neighbors.
(d) Nothing left in their storage silos.

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

8. When Polo describes a bridge made of stone, Khan wants to know:
(a) How many stones are in the bridge.
(b) Which stone supports the bridge.
(c) How large the stones are.
(d) Whether the stones are rough or smooth.

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

10. In Eusapia, what is there really is no way of knowing anymore?
(a) Who is alive and who is dead.
(b) How long the city has existed.
(c) Whether or not the dead truly are communicating with the living.
(d) How long its underground counterpart has existed.

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

12. What happens to the city of Irene as one approaches it?
(a) It changes.
(b) It vanishes.
(c) It floats away.
(d) It spins.

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

14. Why does Khan wonder when Polo actually has time to travel to far-off cities?
(a) He frequently spots Polo entertaining friends in Khan's city.
(b) It appears Polo has never moved from Khan's garden.
(c) Polo is too busy writing down his travel accounts.
(d) Polo is too busy with his job of head counselor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo describe Eusapia as?

2. In Chapter 8, Khan is on the verge of:

3. Esmeralda is known as the city of what?

4. After the people of Ersilia move and the city is in ruins, what are left?

5. Most inhabitants of Eudoxia believe that the pattern of its carpet is:

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