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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The vignette with a title that repeats one word twice uses what word in its title?
(a) Speak.
(b) Believe.
(c) Trust.
(d) Act.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Achilles's mother dipped him into the river Styx in order to accomplish what goal?
(a) To make him immortal.
(b) To banish him from the earth.
(c) To bind him to her forever.
(d) To give him the power of invisibility.

8. Captain James Cook's search for a mysterious island is depicted as taking place in what year?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1684.
(c) 1733.
(d) 1801.

9. 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) Fish and snails.
(c) Seashells and coral.
(d) Octopi and kelp.

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

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

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

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

14. The vignette entitled "30,000 Guilders" takes place in what century?
(a) The 17th.
(b) The 18th.
(c) The 15th.
(d) The 16th.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains that the airport in which city is shaped like a computer chip?

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

3. During Annushka's endless trips around the city, she finds a mentor in whom?

4. The narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?

5. The narrator refers to the inevitable entrapment of people who have not mastered the art of taking what action?

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