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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Day of the Dead is a festival that lasts for what length of time?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 1 afternoon.
(d) 1 week.

2. The narrator deems her friend who does not like to travel alone to be a bad what?
(a) Liar.
(b) Date.
(c) Person.
(d) Pilgrim.

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

4. What year is depicted when the vignette first joins Philip Verheyen?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1493.
(d) 1779.

5. The vignette entitled "The Achilles Tendon" opens in what year?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1442.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Charlotta's personal touch is detectable in the drawings of what two objects on the labels of the specimen jars?

3. The narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?

4. It is revealed that Verheyen's loss of a body part had been caused by what object?

5. The donkey owner observes that the American tourists are different from the others in what way?

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