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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reception Areas at Large Fancy Hotels" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes how the swastikas begin to produce what kind of response in her after a while?
(a) Pavlovian.
(b) Unexamined.
(c) Shame.
(d) Horror.

2. The narrator laments the plights of people who speak what language as their native tongue?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) Russian.
(d) English.

3. One vignette describes which people's practice of mummifying their loved ones' heads?
(a) The Celts.
(b) The Amazons.
(c) The Zulu.
(d) The Maori.

4. The narrator claims that what kind of "sin will be forgiven" (177)?
(a) Mortal.
(b) Minor.
(c) Naive.
(d) Narrative.

5. The narrator proclaims that "seeing means" (182) what?
(a) Craving.
(b) Believing.
(c) Accepting.
(d) Knowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which direction does the narrator's plane fly in the vignette entitled "Irkutsk-Moscow" (225)?

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

3. The composer's sister plans her brother's funeral using the work of which great composer?

4. Besides the composer's sister, who else is present at the moment of the composer's death?

5. What are the categories of television identified by the narrator when she has insomnia?

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