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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Citizens of the World, Pick Up Your Pens!"- "Sarira".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In a vignette composed of only one sentence, a time change results in an hour-long flight appearing to be how long?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

3. What is the narrator's destination during her first true experience with travel?
(a) A library.
(b) A river.
(c) A park.
(d) A swimming pool.

4. How does Aleksandra describe God to the narrator?
(a) As a tyrant.
(b) As an animal.
(c) As a creator.
(d) As an artist.

5. The owner of the donkeys sells tourists trips meant to mimic the journey of whom?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Moses.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator comes to believe that change is different from permanence in what way?

2. The after-dinner entertainment causes what reaction in the narrator and her companion?

3. How many of the first vignettes focus on the narrator's motivations for writing?

4. The narrator states that the person at the center of "Sarira" has a body that will transform into what object upon her death?

5. As a child, the narrator had dreamt of one day becoming what?

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