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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. The narrator proclaims that "seeing means" (182) what?
(a) Knowing.
(b) Believing.
(c) Craving.
(d) Accepting.

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

3. Annushka is prepared to trade what item for the cure of her child's illness?
(a) Her own life.
(b) Her hands.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her other child.

4. One vignette focuses on a ruler from Istanbul who rounds up what kinds of stray animals and puts them on an island?
(a) Parrots.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

5. What motivation drives humans to travel, according to the lectures focused on travel psychology?
(a) Ennui.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Desire.
(d) Boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of information does the narrator observe written on the side of an air sickness bag?

2. The star soprano performing at the composer's funeral goes by what name?

3. In what type of shop does the narrator encounter a woman who has forgotten the Polish language?

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

5. The vignette about whales posits that on the rare occasion when a beached whale is saved, it is sent to what country?

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