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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To make the passing from life to death less abrupt, what have the people of Eusapia done?
(a) Developed a way for the living to accompany the dead halfway.
(b) Built special resonating chambers where the dead can still speak to the living.
(c) Built an underground city identical to the one above ground.
(d) Developed a system of surrounding the dying with laughter and merriment.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the furthest city to which Polo has ever traveled?
(a) Eudoxia.
(b) Phyllis.
(c) Pyrrha.
(d) Adelma.

9. As Polo studies the wood of Khan's chessboard, what does he point out?
(a) That they've not had dinner yet.
(b) Its rich red color.
(c) That it's getting late.
(d) Its natural flaws.

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

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

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

13. When families in Leandra move in to new houses, who follows them?
(a) Their protectors.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Silent wanderers.
(d) Servants.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Polo lands at the furthest city to which he's ever traveled, he arrives when?

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

3. What is Octavia known as?

4. The people of Adelma remind Polo of what?

5. The people in the city of Irene are:

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