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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 vignette entitled "The Achilles Tendon" opens in what year?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1442.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1692.

2. How many of the first vignettes focus on the narrator's motivations for writing?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

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

4. The star soprano performing at the composer's funeral goes by what name?
(a) Gabriella.
(b) Graziella.
(c) Ludwika.
(d) Grace.

5. In the vignette entitled "Dry Specimens," the narrator examines a dried and varnished what?
(a) Bovine tail.
(b) Human stomach.
(c) Bovine eyeball.
(d) Human liver.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first pilgrim focused upon within the narrative of Flights is whom?

2. In what way does the pilgrim who reveres a philosopher interpret what he observes?

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

4. Another one of the pilgrims featured within Flights considers what philosophical work to be more practical than the Bible?

5. When the narrator dreams of cities as enormous tree trunks, what is her estimation of how high the live trees must have reached?

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