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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Bodhi Tree" - "Mobility is Reality".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the narrator's feelings about guidebooks?
(a) They are helpful for young travelers.
(b) They are destructive in their overanalysis.
(c) Every location in them should be avoided.
(d) They are written by people who never travel.

2. The vignettes mentioning Menchu focuses on what type of ruler?
(a) A sultan.
(b) A president.
(c) A king.
(d) A shah.

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) 300 kilometers.
(c) 40 miles.
(d) 1500 miles.

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

5. When the narrator dreams of a huge cloud on the horizon, in what location does she find herself in the dream?
(a) Bikini Island.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Aruba.
(d) Tahiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of ruler buys Ruysch's collection of biological specimens?

2. The narrator notes that the airport in which city is shaped like a hieroglyphic?

3. In a vignette composed of only one sentence, a time change results in an hour-long flight appearing to be how long?

4. The university attended by the narrator had previously served as an outpost for what group?

5. For what reason does the narrator believe that her own body will not undergo a transformation at the time of her death?

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