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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. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?
(a) Isaura.
(b) Laura.
(c) Tamara.
(d) Zirma.

2. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?
(a) A good spouse and many children.
(b) Enough food on the table.
(c) A place where they are free to follow their interests.
(d) A city like their own.

3. Khan's messengers advise him on the price of:
(a) Materials found in his land holdings.
(b) Medicines imported from nearby regions.
(c) Purple cloth for his royal garments.
(d) New battle ships.

4. Who tells Polo in Hypatia that, "signs form a language, but not the one you know."
(a) One of the servants.
(b) One of the philosphers.
(c) The sultan's eldest son.
(d) The sultan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of these is not a city described by Polo in Chapter 2?

3. 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?

4. When Khan describes cities to Polo, what does he tell Polo to do?

5. Polo gives Khan impressions of:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Maurilia connected to its past?

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

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

6. Explain why Polo says that one cannot forget the city of Zora.

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

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

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

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

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