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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 wasteland of jagged rocks and tortured souls.
(d) A golden altar to the gods of light and darkness.

3. What does Polo say that Pyrrha represents for him?
(a) The picture of his childhood dreams.
(b) The perfect city.
(c) The ultimate in decadence.
(d) All the cities he's never seen.

4. Octavia is full of:
(a) Towers, arches, and bells.
(b) Ropes, chains, and catwalks.
(c) Translucent tents.
(d) Forgotten dreams.

5. When Polo lands at the furthest city to which he's ever traveled, he arrives when?
(a) During the hour of the wholesale fish market.
(b) At the start of the harvest.
(c) In the middle of the city's festival of light.
(d) At the solstice.

6. The people in the city of Irene are:
(a) Giants.
(b) Trapped.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Dwarfs.

7. Who are honored throughout Leonia?
(a) Clock makers.
(b) Street cleaners.
(c) Travelers.
(d) Elders.

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

9. Each person in Melania is what?
(a) Tested at the age of five.
(b) Regarded as both mother and father to everyone else.
(c) Born into a role.
(d) Expected to understand existence.

10. Which of the following is not true about the city of Beersheba?
(a) The most talented architects built the underground version of Beersheba.
(b) There are two projections of Beersheba.
(c) Its people honor everything that represents Beersheba's heavenly counterpart.
(d) Residents highly regard the Beersheba that exists below.

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

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

13. As Khan studies the wood of his chessboard, Polo begins to talk of:
(a) A field of sunflowers, ships, and children fast asleep.
(b) Tattoos, flowers, and men with beards.
(c) Elephants, strong winds, and sunsets.
(d) An ebony forest , docks, and women at windows.

14. Can the reader tell with certainty whether or not Polo's many cities actually exist?
(a) Only in a handful of cases.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, in most cases.

15. In Chapter 6, Polo claims that he's reached the point where, in the number of people he has known:
(a) He recalls all faces but few names.
(b) The dead outnumber the living.
(c) Very few are worth remembering.
(d) His friends outnumber his enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of objects are found in Clarice's museums?

2. The people of Adelma remind Polo of what?

3. What does Polo describe Eusapia as?

4. The strings of Ersilia come in different colors. What do these colors represent?

5. What does Khan dream his lands are filled with?

(see the answer keys)

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