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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. Polo tells Khan that the second half of Sophronia is filled with what?
(a) Markets, hen houses, silkworm farms, and poppy fields.
(b) Universities, observatories, and libraries.
(c) Gardens, statues, and fountains.
(d) Factories, palaces, slaughterhouses, and schools.

2. Which is the city of perceptions and symbols, where items are valuable because of what they represent, not what they really are?
(a) Zora.
(b) Isaura.
(c) Tamara.
(d) Zirma.

3. Polo explains that the city Khan dreams of with the farewells from its harbor has one secret. What is it?
(a) Other cities bring their prisoners here.
(b) Its residents suffer from a rare, mysterious disease.
(c) It knows about departures but not returns.
(d) It is a phantom city born of nymphs' imaginations.

4. What does Polo say he gauges everywhere he travels to?
(a) Wealth of each region.
(b) The level of dissent in each city of the empire.
(c) Military strength of every location.
(d) Amount of happiness left in the empire.

5. Polo tells Khan that he feels this way about the things he saw in Hypatia:
(a) Entranced.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Uplifted.
(d) Cheated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Someone traveling to Maurilia will be invited to what?

2. Which city is described as a place where traitors are strung from lampposts and old men sit on docks, telling stories while mending fishing nets?

3. When Khan asks if he will finally be able to fully possess his empire after learning the meaning of all of Polo's symbols, the traveler replies that Khan:

4. What is Eutropia composed of?

5. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Even though Zobeide, the white city, was made from the dreams of many men of different nationalities, how do strangers see the place?

4. Why does Polo say that it is best to visit Diomira on a September evening?

5. Describe the city of Zenobia.

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

7. 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?

8. Describe the gods in the two religions of Isaura.

9. What happens from time to time to the temporary part of the city of Sophronia?

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

(see the answer keys)

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