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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 gives Khan impressions of:
(a) His cities and their inhabitants.
(b) The meaning of life.
(c) The financial state of the empire.
(d) What other leaders think of him.

2. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Anastasia.
(c) Isidora.
(d) Diomira.

3. When strangers arrive to Zobeide, what impression do they have of the city?
(a) They've seen this place before in their dreams.
(b) They do not understand what drew people here.
(c) It looks like a piece of heaven.
(d) They feel a deep longing in their hearts.

4. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:
(a) Onyx and agate.
(b) Silver and shells.
(c) Gold and sea stones.
(d) Turquoise and tin.

5. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?
(a) He's too shy to speak directly to the emperor.
(b) He's eccentric and mischievous.
(c) He wants to make it more challenging for Khan.
(d) He cannot speak Khan's language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What's missing in Armilla?

2. Where do the people of Isaura find water?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what do Khan's messengers warn of?

4. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?

5. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the different models of the city of Fedora show?

2. Why does Kublai Khan listen to Marco Polo's fantastic stories about cities he's visited?

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

4. Khan and Polo each envision model cities. From these models, what are the two men able to deduce?

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

6. Located 80 miles northwest of Zenobia, what is the city of Euphemia like?

7. Describe life in Eutropia, which is made up of many individual cities of equal size.

8. How does Khan react upon growing impatient with Polo's stories?

9. What is the significance of the evening breeze that Khan and Polo enjoy while conversing on the steps of the palace?

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

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