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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. How is Dr. Blau's talk about silicone plastination received by his audience?
(a) Curtly.
(b) Enthusiastically.
(c) Disinterestedly.
(d) Blandly.

2. In which direction does the narrator's plane fly in the vignette entitled "Irkutsk-Moscow" (225)?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) South.

3. When Annushka wishes for someone to witness her pain, she visits what location?
(a) A church.
(b) A bank.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A plateau.

4. The narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?
(a) World.
(b) Reality.
(c) Goal.
(d) Pilgrim.

5. In the vignette entitled "Dry Specimens," the narrator examines a dried and varnished what?
(a) Human stomach.
(b) Human liver.
(c) Bovine tail.
(d) Bovine eyeball.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the travel psychology vignettes posits that islands display what quality?

3. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?

4. Annushka begins taking what form of transport ceaselessly throughout each day?

5. The narrator remarks that rarity is frequently rewarded with what?

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