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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. When Annushka wishes for someone to witness her pain, she visits what location?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A bank.
(c) A plateau.
(d) A church.

2. The narrator describes the nocturnal brain using an allusion to which mythological figure?
(a) Pandora.
(b) Eros.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Poseidon.

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

4. When Verheyen's student imagines his teacher, he pictures him using what type of writing implement?
(a) A Sharpie.
(b) A feather pen.
(c) A pencil.
(d) A crayon.

5. In which direction does the narrator's plane fly in the vignette entitled "Irkutsk-Moscow" (225)?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains that the airport in which city is shaped like a computer chip?

2. The woman with the red suitcase is traveling to see her ex-lover from what period of time?

3. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator meets a woman who hails from what type of location?

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

5. The narrator claims that what kind of "sin will be forgiven" (177)?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the words of Annushka's supposed tormentor are revealed, what had the old woman been saying?

2. Discuss the unnamed narrator's feelings about languages and secrecy.

3. What two points of view does the narrator claim exist in the world and why?

4. What element does the narrator name as a "natural" (227) characteristic of the world?

5. How does Tokarczuk use postcards as a symbol?

6. What does the smoke created by the Maori symbolize?

7. In what way does Tokarczuk use dialogue in order to highlight a lack of sensitivity in tourists?

8. How do Existentialist ideals creep into Verheyen's later writings?

9. Who is Annushka?

10. What significance does the unnamed narrator find in the shapes of airports?

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