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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The two businessmen sitting next to the narrator are traveling to a conference on what subject?
(a) Wind power.
(b) Electric vehicles.
(c) Solar radiation.
(d) Nuclear power.

2. The narrator gives a ride to a young man named Nebojsa who tells her what kinds of stories?
(a) Love.
(b) Tall tales.
(c) Origin myths.
(d) War.

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

4. What does the woman with the red suitcase do for a living?
(a) She designs interior spaces.
(b) She is a landscaping designer.
(c) She designs poisons.
(d) She is a doctor.

5. Who notices during their visits that Verheyen is becoming increasingly obsessed with his amputated body part?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Van Horssen.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Professor Ruysch.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Flight's vignettes sees the narrator judging a friend of hers who hates to travel in what manner?

2. What year is depicted when the vignette first joins Philip Verheyen?

3. The narrator sees herself as "the perfect" (179) what?

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

5. Annushka leaves the location to which she has fled because of a statue of which figure?

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