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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. The words "Mobility is Reality" (226) appear in the Moscow airport within an advertisement for what product?
(a) Trains.
(b) Cell phones.
(c) Taxis.
(d) Credit cards.

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

3. The narrator explains that the airport in which city is shaped like a computer chip?
(a) Frankfurt.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Tokyo.

4. Philip Verheyen was a real person from history who held what position?
(a) Congressman.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Astrophysicist.
(d) Astronaut.

5. The narrator proclaims that "seeing means" (182) what?
(a) Believing.
(b) Craving.
(c) Accepting.
(d) Knowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The vignette with a title that repeats one word twice uses what word in its title?

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

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

4. What service does the woman with the red suitcase perform for her ex-lover when she visits him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What had the woman in rags been mumbling to Annushka when Annushka became frightened?

2. What object does Tokarczuk use in a metaphor characterizing the nocturnal brain and why?

3. How is the loss of purity theme depicted within the narrator's conversation about giving blood?

4. What elements does the unnamed narrator consider when deciding whether a story or a lecture is more appropriate for the story she has to tell?

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

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

7. What country does the unnamed narrator say is the perfect place for observing people and why?

8. How does Tokarczuk present the theme of being present within the vignette entitled “Irkutsk-Moscow”?

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

10. Who is Annushka?

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