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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In which direction does the narrator's plane fly in the vignette entitled "Irkutsk-Moscow" (225)?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) North.

5. Annushka leaves the location to which she has fled because of a statue of which figure?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Christ.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) John the Baptist.

6. When Verheyen's student imagines his teacher, he pictures him using what type of writing implement?
(a) A crayon.
(b) A Sharpie.
(c) A pencil.
(d) A feather pen.

7. The woman with the red suitcase has how many grown children?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

8. 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.

9. The vignette entitled "Another Cook" focuses on what other Cook besides James Cook?
(a) Edward.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Elijah.

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

11. At what time of day do the homes of one country's citizens become small stages, according to the narrator?
(a) At noon.
(b) At midnight.
(c) At dawn.
(d) At dusk.

12. The narrator explains that the airport in which city is shaped like a computer chip?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Tokyo.

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

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

15. The vignette about whales posits that on the rare occasion when a beached whale is saved, it is sent to what country?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Thailand.
(c) China.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The vignette entitled "30,000 Guilders" takes place in what century?

3. How many letters from Josefine Soliman to Francis I are included within the novel Flights?

4. The image of a hand on a postcard causes the narrator to fixate on what objects as she moves about the world?

5. For what reason does the narrator lament the plights of people who speak a particular language?

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