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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Bodhi Tree" - "Mobility is Reality".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivation drives humans to travel, according to the lectures focused on travel psychology?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Desire.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Ennui.

2. After Verheyen's recovery, he shows a remarkable talent for practicing what skill?
(a) Inventing solutions to problems.
(b) Seeing the future.
(c) Sketching human anatomy.
(d) Writing screenplays.

3. The narrator pursues a degree in what discipline during her time at the university?
(a) Biology.
(b) Education.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Philosophy.

4. The after-dinner entertainment causes what reaction in the narrator and her companion?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They scream.
(c) They cry.
(d) They faint.

5. The philosopher revered by one of the novel's pilgrims at one point observes and interprets what sight?
(a) The feet of people rushing along the street.
(b) The hooves of horses galloping by.
(c) The line of people at the bank.
(d) The flight of birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the first vignettes focus on the narrator's motivations for writing?

2. What type of trains are discussed in the vignette entitled "Trains for Cowards" (61)?

3. What kind of tree is featured in the vignette in which the narrator meets a man from China?

4. When the narrator dreams of a huge cloud on the horizon, in what location does she find herself in the dream?

5. The narrator comes to believe that change is different from permanence in what way?

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