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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Flights" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the categories of television identified by the narrator when she has insomnia?
(a) Pornography, religion, and violence.
(b) Pornography, religion, violence, and politics.
(c) Pornography, religion, violence, politics, and entertainment.
(d) Pornography and religion.

2. What kind of tree is featured in the vignette in which the narrator meets a man from China?
(a) A ceiba tree.
(b) An elm tree.
(c) A bonsai tree.
(d) A bodhi tree.

3. Annushka leaves the location to which she has fled because of a statue of which figure?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Christ.

4. When the narrator dreams of cities as enormous tree trunks, what is her estimation of how high the live trees must have reached?
(a) 1500 miles.
(b) 300 kilometers.
(c) 100 kilometers.
(d) 40 miles.

5. In the vignette entitled "Godzone," a woman from what country packs her red suitcase?
(a) Japan.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Myanmar.
(d) Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?

2. The vignette entitled "Media Presenters" describes what type of vehicle lying in blood and gasoline?

3. In the vignette entitled "Whales, or: Drowning in Air," the narrator depicts a beached whale in what location?

4. The narrator describes a dream in which she reads an article about how to construct what object?

5. The fact with which the narrator is most infatuated has to do with what part of the human body?

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