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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reception Areas at Large Fancy Hotels" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the narrator urge her readers to take in relation to their lives?
(a) She urges them to narrate their lives.
(b) She urges them to document their lives.
(c) She urges them to interrupt their lives.
(d) She urges them to dedicate their lives to God.

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

3. For what reason does the narrator lament the plights of people who speak a particular language?
(a) Because they spit their words at one another.
(b) Because they have nothing secret of their own.
(c) Because they have no facility with ideas.
(d) Because they share such a variety of accents.

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

5. What type of trains are discussed in the vignette entitled "Trains for Cowards" (61)?
(a) International trains.
(b) Freight trains.
(c) Trains of thought.
(d) Night trains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says that she prefers to be more like a gardener than like a what when it comes to her own narrative?

3. In the vignette entitled "Swiebodzin," what is the home country of the vignette's narrator?

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

5. The first pilgrim focused upon within the narrative of Flights is whom?

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