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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What service does the woman with the red suitcase perform for her ex-lover when she visits him?
(a) She assists him with suicide.
(b) She organizes his medicine cabinet.
(c) She satisfies him sexually.
(d) She makes him dinner.

2. At what time does the flight from Irkutsk arrive in Moscow?
(a) 10 in the evening.
(b) 10 in the morning.
(c) 8 in the morning.
(d) 8 in the evening.

3. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator meets a woman who hails from what type of location?
(a) A peninsula.
(b) A forest.
(c) An island.
(d) A desert.

4. When the narrator dreams of cities as enormous tree trunks, what is her estimation of how high the live trees must have reached?
(a) 1500 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 300 kilometers.
(d) 100 kilometers.

5. The image of a hand on a postcard causes the narrator to fixate on what objects as she moves about the world?
(a) Hairs.
(b) Knuckles.
(c) Fingernails.
(d) Fingers.

6. The man sitting next to the narrator during the flight from Irkutsk to Moscow has what job?
(a) Physicist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Garbage collector.
(d) Travel agent.

7. Nebojsa claims that travelers are pure because they have no time to think about what subject?
(a) The past.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Sex.

8. In the vignette entitled "Travel Tales," the narrator wonders whether she should speak in what form, rather than in stories?
(a) Poems.
(b) Riddles.
(c) Songs.
(d) Lectures.

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

10. The narrator claims that what object reveals the natural state of the world?
(a) Truth.
(b) A mirror.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Light.

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

12. The Day of the Dead is a festival that lasts for what length of time?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 afternoon.

13. 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.

14. The narrator tells the reader that what location is a good place to practice her favorite skill?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Holland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Ireland.

15. The narrator says that she prefers to be more like a gardener than like a what when it comes to her own narrative?
(a) Mistress.
(b) Phlebotomist.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Fortune teller.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman with the red suitcase makes several trips to what country?

2. Achilles's mother dipped him into the river Styx in order to accomplish what goal?

3. When Verheyen's student imagines his teacher, he pictures him using what type of writing implement?

4. The vignette with a title that repeats one word twice uses what word in its title?

5. The narrator discusses a statue of what entity that appeared to have arrived in the world fully-formed?

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