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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 Eusapia, what is there really is no way of knowing anymore?
(a) How long the city has existed.
(b) Whether or not the dead truly are communicating with the living.
(c) Who is alive and who is dead.
(d) How long its underground counterpart has existed.

2. What items from his travels does Polo spread at the feet of Khan in Chapter 8?
(a) A violin, a silk jacket, a bowl, and a feather.
(b) A wooden box, a book, and a locket.
(c) A spear, a chess set, and a hat.
(d) A helmet, a seashell, a coconut, and a fan.

3. What does a traveler arriving to Baucis see?
(a) Rope bridges.
(b) Slender stilts.
(c) Blue arches.
(d) Golden stairs.

4. The people of Lenia awaken each day and:
(a) Make a pilgrimage to the beach.
(b) Ready their kites for flying.
(c) Check their clocks for accuracy.
(d) Wash with unopened bars of soap.

5. If a traveler to Thekla asks why the construction is never done, what answer will he hear?
(a) In order to confuse the spirits.
(b) So that the destruction can't start.
(c) Nobody knows why.
(d) They are waiting for the architect to return.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Melania's population renew itself?

2. As he travels through Adelma, what does Polo wonder?

3. In Chapter 8, Khan is on the verge of:

4. In Trude, only the name of what changes?

5. What is at the center of Moriana?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clarice preserve and display its history?

2. What does Polo say to Khan when the emperor points out that he never speaks of Venice?

3. Describe the two sides of the city of Moriana.

4. When Polo speaks of imperfections in the wood of Khan's chessboard, how does the emperor respond?

5. What are the theories regarding why the inhabitants of Baucis live up in the clouds and rarely climb down to the ground?

6. How do the people of Beersheba regard the heavenly version of their city?

7. When people get lost in Eudoxia, what do they look at to find their bearings?

8. Leonia, the city that reinvents itself daily, is in danger of what?

9. What eventually happens to travelers who decide to stay in Phyllis to discover all of its secrets?

10. How do the cities described by Polo in Chapter 8 depict confusion?

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