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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman with the red suitcase is traveling to see her ex-lover from what period of time?
(a) Her thirties.
(b) Her college years.
(c) Her high school years.
(d) Her teaching years.

2. The woman with the red suitcase makes several trips to what country?
(a) Spain.
(b) Thailand.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

3. Annushka begins taking what form of transport ceaselessly throughout each day?
(a) A boat.
(b) A bus.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A train.

4. In Josefine Soliman's final letter to Francis I, she accuses him of what transgression?
(a) Playing God.
(b) Lying.
(c) Apologizing insincerely.
(d) Welshing on a bet.

5. 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 makes him dinner.
(c) She organizes his medicine cabinet.
(d) She satisfies him sexually.

6. How many letters from Josefine Soliman to Francis I are included within the novel Flights?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

8. When Annushka wishes for someone to witness her pain, she visits what location?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A church.
(c) A bank.
(d) A plateau.

9. The narrator declares that reception areas are better than cafes for what reason?
(a) Because they are carpeted.
(b) Because they require no purchase.
(c) Because they contain more human drama.
(d) Because they are quieter.

10. What action does the narrator urge her readers to take in relation to their lives?
(a) She urges them to interrupt their lives.
(b) She urges them to dedicate their lives to God.
(c) She urges them to narrate their lives.
(d) She urges them to document their lives.

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

12. The narrator uses what location to demonstrate the vast feelings of being present experienced by the passengers flying from Irkutsk to Moscow?
(a) Timbuktu.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Cucamonga.

13. The narrator says that the airport in which city is shaped like a spine?
(a) Frankfurt.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles.

14. The narrator sees a postcard meant to evoke Rome with an image of whose hand?
(a) God.
(b) Adam.
(c) Emperor Constantine.
(d) Pope Francis.

15. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator is staying at a hotel in what city?
(a) London.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Paris.
(d) Prague.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the fictional Philip Verheyen's own body does he dissect over the course of several years?

2. The narrator claims that what object reveals the natural state of the world?

3. The narrator notes that the airport in which city is shaped like a hieroglyphic?

4. Philip Verheyen was a real person from history who held what position?

5. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?

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