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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One vignette focuses on a ruler from Istanbul who rounds up what kinds of stray animals and puts them on an island?
(a) Cats.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Dogs.

2. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?
(a) French.
(b) Dutch.
(c) German.
(d) Portuguese.

3. The woman with the red suitcase has how many grown children?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

4. The image of a hand on a postcard causes the narrator to fixate on what objects as she moves about the world?
(a) Knuckles.
(b) Fingernails.
(c) Hairs.
(d) Fingers.

5. The narrator describes the nocturnal brain using an allusion to which mythological figure?
(a) Eros.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Pandora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object is used to symbolize the tendency of certain people to seek life improvement through travel?

2. The woman with the red suitcase stops in what location on her way home from visiting her ex-lover?

3. The narrator proclaims that "seeing means" (182) what?

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

5. Captain James Cook's search for a mysterious island is depicted as taking place in what year?

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