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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 Khan says that he has a model city in his mind, he explains that from that city, he can:
(a) Supply silk to the rest of his empire.
(b) Deduce all possible cities.
(c) Send Polo to every other city.
(d) Best rule his empire.

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

3. When the people of Chloe pass each other in the street, what do they do?
(a) Stop to exchange warm greetings.
(b) Bow deeply to each other.
(c) Imagine entire lives for each other.
(d) Picture each other wearing different clothes.

4. By dissecting each city, what is Polo is trying to explain to Khan?
(a) That beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(b) That each city exists outside of its inhabitants and location.
(c) That there is good and bad within each city.
(d) That not every city within the empire is relevant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?

2. What city is found 80 miles northwest of Zenobia?

3. Polo wants to inform the emperor how much darkness is out there by focusing on:

4. Polo first describes the city of Diomira to Khan as:

5. Polo states that Dorothea can be described by its canals, towers, people, and history, or how else?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe the city of Zenobia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Polo come to realize about language in Hypatia?

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

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