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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. In Armilla, what is one likely to catch a glimpse of?
(a) Prayer flags fluttering from rooftops.
(b) Young women bathing in the many tubs and showers.
(c) Young boys fishing with their bare hands in the river.
(d) Children flying colorful, dragon-shaped kites in the distance.

2. When do merchants from many different nations gather at Euphemia to trade?
(a) Every solstice and equinox.
(b) Immediately following the harvest.
(c) The first of the year.
(d) Every full moon.

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

4. Where is the city of Valdrada built?
(a) In a fertile valley.
(b) At the edge of a dense forest.
(c) On the shores of a lake.
(d) On the top of a mesa.

5. How does Polo describe the people of Chloe?
(a) They are most welcoming to newcomers.
(b) They are strangers to each other.
(c) Great warriors train here.
(d) Everyone here is a teacher of some type.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polo explain that Zemrude's form is based on?

2. Polo understands that when he has irritated Khan, the emperor will:

3. When Polo speaks of Zemrude, one of the views he offers is filled with:

4. Anastasia is described as being full of precious and mundane objects such as:

5. Which city has supposedly languished and deteriorated, forgotten by the earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

7. How is Maurilia connected to its past?

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

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

10. What does Polo not know about Armilla?

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