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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the fictional Philip Verheyen's own body does he dissect over the course of several years?
(a) His leg.
(b) His ear.
(c) His foot.
(d) His arm.

2. The narrator's first true experience with travel takes place during what period of her life?
(a) When she is a preteen.
(b) When she is a young child.
(c) When she is a teenager.
(d) When she is an infant.

3. Achilles's mother dipped him into the river Styx in order to accomplish what goal?
(a) To make him immortal.
(b) To bind him to her forever.
(c) To banish him from the earth.
(d) To give him the power of invisibility.

4. As a child, the narrator had dreamt of one day becoming what?
(a) A boat.
(b) A train.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A tugboat captain.

5. One of Flight's vignettes sees the narrator judging a friend of hers who hates to travel in what manner?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Alone.
(c) Cheaply.
(d) Slowly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Josefine Soliman's final letter to Francis I, she accuses him of what transgression?

2. For what reason does the narrator lament the plights of people who speak a particular language?

3. In the vignette entitled "Travel Tales," the narrator wonders whether she should speak in what form, rather than in stories?

4. The narrator compares herself to what part of the body while discussing her role as a writer?

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

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