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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 city is a gray stone metropolis with a large metal building in the center?
(a) Prada.
(b) Isadora.
(c) Fedora.
(d) Lenora.

2. What's missing in Armilla?
(a) Roads.
(b) Walls, ceilings, and floors.
(c) A comprehensible language.
(d) Law and order.

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?
(a) Isidora.
(b) Anastasia.
(c) Zirma.
(d) Zaira.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In chapter 3, when the traveler and the emperor discuss a city Khan has imagined, what does Polo say about it?

3. If a traveler walks into Zemrude with his head held high, how does he see the city?

4. Why does Polo initially rely on symbols to represent people and places?

5. What do the people of Zenobia imagine when asked to describe a happy life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way is Tamara a city of perceptions and symbols?

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

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

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

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

7. Why would you say the cities described by Polo in Chapter 3 have an especially dreamy quality about them?

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

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

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

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