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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marco Polo first tells his tales to Kublai Khan, he uses:
(a) A language Khan developed.
(b) Large words to impress Khan.
(c) Gestures and pantomimes.
(d) An interpreter.

2. What creates connections between lives in Chloe?
(a) Something about their glances.
(b) The fact that everyone is related to everyone else in some way.
(c) The city's 103-year-old patriarch.
(d) The way everyone lives in close, tight-knit communities.

3. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every solstice and equinox.
(b) Every full moon.
(c) Immediately following the harvest.
(d) The first of the year.

4. What's missing in Armilla?
(a) Law and order.
(b) Walls, ceilings, and floors.
(c) A comprehensible language.
(d) Roads.

5. Maurilia was once:
(a) Ruled completely by matriarchs.
(b) Thoroughly devastated by a flood.
(c) Completely submerged under water.
(d) A completely different city with the same name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city stands on high pilings even though it sits on dry land?

2. The "white city" described by Polo is:

3. This peninsular city can be reached by ship or camel, revealing itself to travelers by both land and sea:

4. Polo says that each action in Valdrada is inverted in:

5. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the large metal building located at the center of Fedora?

2. Describe how the means of communication between Khan and Polo evolves.

3. When Khan and Polo pause in between their conversations, pondering the meaning of what's been said, what does each imagine or visualize?

4. Why would you say the cities described by Polo in Chapter 3 have an especially dreamy quality about them?

5. How does Polo describe the young women of Armilla?

6. What is it about Anastasia that it would make slaves of men?

7. What special ability does the mirror image of Valdrada possess?

8. When Khan instructs Polo to find the city from his dreams that has a north-facing harbor from which ships regularly leave as the people ashore wave their last goodbyes, what does Polo say?

9. In Chapter 4, why does Polo dissect every city he describes to Khan?

10. How does Khan react to Polo's stories when he's feeling euphoric about his empire?

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