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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Toward what types of things has the narrator always been drawn?
(a) Broken.
(b) False.
(c) Shiny.
(d) Mysterious.

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

4. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) French.
(d) German.

5. The narrator refers to the inevitable entrapment of people who have not mastered the art of taking what action?
(a) Writing.
(b) Speaking.
(c) Creating.
(d) Breathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman with the red suitcase is traveling to see her ex-lover from what period of time?

2. Charlotta's personal touch is detectable in the drawings of what two objects on the labels of the specimen jars?

3. How many letters from Josefine Soliman to Francis I are included within the novel Flights?

4. How does the narrator view the locations in which she has been hurt?

5. One vignette depicts veiled women watching a movie together that focuses on what fictional character?

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