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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The fact with which the narrator is most infatuated has to do with what part of the human body?
(a) The appendix.
(b) The tongue.
(c) The nose.
(d) The ear.

2. What service does the woman with the red suitcase perform for her ex-lover when she visits him?
(a) She satisfies him sexually.
(b) She assists him with suicide.
(c) She makes him dinner.
(d) She organizes his medicine cabinet.

3. The narrator requires an electric socket in order to power what necessary item?
(a) A nightlight.
(b) A can opener.
(c) A teakettle.
(d) A hairdryer.

4. The narrator claims that when a beached whale is saved and is sent to a particular country, its fate is what?
(a) To have its blubber harvested.
(b) To be turned into dog food.
(c) To live in an aquarium.
(d) To die alone.

5. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator is staying at a hotel in what city?
(a) London.
(b) Prague.
(c) Paris.
(d) Frankfurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The vignette entitled "30,000 Guilders" takes place in what century?

2. The image of a hand on a postcard causes the narrator to fixate on what objects as she moves about the world?

3. The narrator laments the plights of people who speak what language as their native tongue?

4. The narrator says that she prefers to be more like a gardener than like a what when it comes to her own narrative?

5. Who notices during their visits that Verheyen is becoming increasingly obsessed with his amputated body part?

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