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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who notices during their visits that Verheyen is becoming increasingly obsessed with his amputated body part?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Van Horssen.
(d) Professor Ruysch.

2. The narrator notes that the airport in which city is shaped like a hieroglyphic?
(a) Denver.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Tokyo.

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

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

5. The narrator discusses a statue of what entity that appeared to have arrived in the world fully-formed?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Gonesh.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Jesus.

6. During Annushka's endless trips around the city, she finds a mentor in whom?
(a) A beautiful maiden.
(b) A shrouded runaway.
(c) A mysterious figure.
(d) A diseased crone.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Annushka begins taking what form of transport ceaselessly throughout each day?

2. At what time does the flight from Irkutsk arrive in Moscow?

3. The woman with the red suitcase is traveling to see her ex-lover from what period of time?

4. The narrator laments the plights of people who speak what language as their native tongue?

5. The narrator sees a postcard meant to evoke Rome with an image of whose hand?

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