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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Flights" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the vignette entitled "Flights," the narrator states that "everything is" (227) what in hell?
(a) Hypothetical.
(b) On fire.
(c) Pointy.
(d) Lost.

2. The two businessmen sitting next to the narrator are traveling to a conference on what subject?
(a) Solar radiation.
(b) Wind power.
(c) Electric vehicles.
(d) Nuclear power.

3. As the narrator flips through television channels while unable to sleep, she determines that everything falls into how many categories?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One vignette describes which people's practice of mummifying their loved ones' heads?

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

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

4. The vignette entitled "Another Cook" focuses on what other Cook besides James Cook?

5. What city is referred to as the Eternal City?

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