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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The after-dinner entertainment causes what reaction in the narrator and her companion?
(a) They scream.
(b) They cry.
(c) They faint.
(d) They laugh.

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

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

4. The narrator deems her friend who does not like to travel alone to be a bad what?
(a) Date.
(b) Liar.
(c) Pilgrim.
(d) Person.

5. The first pilgrim focused upon within the narrative of Flights is whom?
(a) A young man.
(b) A middle-aged man.
(c) A little boy.
(d) An old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of ruler buys Ruysch's collection of biological specimens?

2. Toward what types of things has the narrator always been drawn?

3. When the narrator attends the lecture about travel psychology, what does she conclude about its length?

4. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator is staying at a hotel in what city?

5. In the vignette entitled "Travel Tales," the narrator wonders whether she should speak in what form, rather than in stories?

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