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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is referred to as the Eternal City?
(a) Vatican City.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Turin.

2. Charlotta's personal touch is detectable in the drawings of what two objects on the labels of the specimen jars?
(a) Otters and whales.
(b) Seashells and coral.
(c) Octopi and kelp.
(d) Fish and snails.

3. Another one of the pilgrims featured within Flights considers what philosophical work to be more practical than the Bible?
(a) A work by Hobbes.
(b) A work by Cioran.
(c) A work by Descartes.
(d) A work by Nietzsche.

4. The after-dinner entertainment causes what reaction in the narrator and her companion?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They scream.
(c) They cry.
(d) They faint.

5. What object does Tokarczuk use as a metaphor for the river upon her first time there?
(a) A paper clip.
(b) A ribbon.
(c) An alarm clock.
(d) A dime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain James Cook's search for a mysterious island is depicted as taking place in what year?

2. One vignette describes which people's practice of mummifying their loved ones' heads?

3. The narrator states that the view from any point between that of the frog and the bird "just leads to" (178) what?

4. The vignette entitled "Sarira" focuses on what kind of person?

5. How does Aleksandra describe God to the narrator?

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