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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Polo lays assorted items at the feet of Khan and uses them for what?
(a) To teach him the basics of trade.
(b) To pay for some of his travels.
(c) To impress the emperor with gifts from afar.
(d) To explain the conditions of the empire.

4. In Trude, only the name of what changes?
(a) Its airport.
(b) Its man-made mountain.
(c) Its hospital.
(d) Its lake.

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

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

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

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

9. How does Polo describe the city of Olinda?
(a) Lonely, lovely, and lost.
(b) Like the billowing clouds of summer.
(c) Longing for a renewed version of itself.
(d) Like trees, it grows in concentric circles.

10. What is Octavia known as?
(a) The land of lost dreams.
(b) The spider-web city.
(c) The city of mist.
(d) Home of the forgotten children.

11. What do the residents of Ersilia do?
(a) Hang strings from the their ceilings.
(b) Build fantastic stringed instuments.
(c) Tie strings around their trees.
(d) Stretch strings from the corners of their houses.

12. In Chapter 8, Khan is on the verge of:
(a) A nervous breakdown.
(b) Understanding the rise and fall of a city.
(c) Growing impatient with Polo and his stories.
(d) Appointing a new emperor.

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

14. What does Leonia do on a daily basis?
(a) Sends messages in bottles.
(b) Flies kites.
(c) Reinvents itself.
(d) Calibrates its clocks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a traveler arrives at Phyllis, what does he decide to do?

2. How does Polo describe Moriana?

3. What is Esmeralda layered with?

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

5. To make the passing from life to death less abrupt, what have the people of Eusapia done?

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