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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Kunicki's wife and child go missing, the locals keep repeating to Kunicki that the island is not what?
(a) Very big.
(b) Evacuating.
(c) Evil.
(d) Dangerous.

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

3. Another one of the pilgrims featured within Flights considers what philosophical work to be more practical than the Bible?
(a) A work by Hobbes.
(b) A work by Nietzsche.
(c) A work by Cioran.
(d) A work by Descartes.

4. With what form of comfort does Kunicki console himself after the disappearance of his wife and child?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Food.

5. What are the narrator's feelings about guidebooks?
(a) They are destructive in their overanalysis.
(b) Every location in them should be avoided.
(c) They are helpful for young travelers.
(d) They are written by people who never travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator flips through television channels while unable to sleep, she determines that everything falls into how many categories?

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

3. A character with what name believes that every human should write a book?

4. As a child, the narrator had dreamt of one day becoming what?

5. The ruler at the center of two vignettes decides to bring only which members of his family along during his escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of metaphor does Tokarczuk use to describe the river near her childhood home and why?

2. Discuss an instance of Tokarczuk employing satire in order to poke fun at a particular group.

3. How is personification used to underscore the deep love Blau has for the study of anatomy?

4. What method does the narrator prefer when dealing with locations in which she has been hurt?

5. How does the theme of deception arise within Blau's visit to Mrs. Mole's home?

6. What are the narrator's feelings about guidebooks?

7. Describe the unnamed narrator's first childhood experience as a traveler.

8. Provide basic information about the origins of travel psychology.

9. Discuss the qualities of Flights that could qualify it as a Postmodern work of literature.

10. How is the theme of violence present within the story about the sultan?

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