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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Charlotta's personal touch is detectable in the drawings of what two objects on the labels of the specimen jars?
(a) Octopi and kelp.
(b) Fish and snails.
(c) Seashells and coral.
(d) Otters and whales.

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

6. The narrator sees herself as "the perfect" (179) what?
(a) Observer.
(b) Sinner.
(c) Pilgrim.
(d) Liar.

7. The narrator claims that what kind of "sin will be forgiven" (177)?
(a) Mortal.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Naive.
(d) Minor.

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

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

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

11. The narrator claims that when a beached whale is saved and is sent to a particular country, its fate is what?
(a) To live in an aquarium.
(b) To die alone.
(c) To be turned into dog food.
(d) To have its blubber harvested.

12. It is revealed that Verheyen's loss of a body part had been caused by what object?
(a) A truck.
(b) A saw.
(c) A dog.
(d) A nail.

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

14. The narrator refers to the inevitable entrapment of people who have not mastered the art of taking what action?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Creating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Breathing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The woman with the red suitcase stops in what location on her way home from visiting her ex-lover?

3. In what liquid is Verheyen's amputated body part preserved?

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

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

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