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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. After Khan sends Polo on many missions, Polo learns:
(a) To become an expert negotiator.
(b) The language of the Tartars.
(c) The cooking techniques of the Mongols.
(d) How to sail virtually any type of ship.

2. When he is quiet, what does Polo sometimes imagine?
(a) What life would be like had he not met the emperor.
(b) Being in a far off land.
(c) Answering the emperor's questions.
(d) Being in the emperor's shoes.

3. Where do the people of Isaura find water?
(a) Atop the highest mountain.
(b) In the city's aqueducts and reservoirs.
(c) From dew that forms on plants.
(d) Wherever they dig.

4. Which city has supposedly languished and deteriorated, forgotten by the earth?
(a) Zora.
(b) Isaura.
(c) Zirma.
(d) Tamara.

5. Someone traveling to Maurilia will be invited to what?
(a) Dine with the city's group of elders.
(b) Offer a gift to the city's ruler.
(c) Stay and relax for three days.
(d) Enjoy the current city while hearing of its past.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Polo explains that the city Khan dreams of with the farewells from its harbor has one secret. What is it?

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

4. Polo tells Khan that the second half of Sophronia is filled with what?

5. Why was the city on pilings built so high off the ground?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Polo not know about Armilla?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Polo say its pointless to try to describe the city of Zaira?

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

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