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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the vignette entitled "Whales, or: Drowning in Air," the narrator depicts a beached whale in what location?
2. The narrator says that the airport in which city is shaped like a spine?
3. The woman with the red suitcase stops in what location on her way home from visiting her ex-lover?
4. The narrator sees herself as "the perfect" (179) what?
5. Annushka begins taking what form of transport ceaselessly throughout each day?
Short Essay Questions
1. What object does Tokarczuk use in a metaphor characterizing the nocturnal brain and why?
2. When the words of Annushka's supposed tormentor are revealed, what had the old woman been saying?
3. How does Tokarczuk present the theme of being present within the vignette entitled “Irkutsk-Moscow”?
4. What does the smoke created by the Maori symbolize?
5. Who is Annushka?
6. How is the theme of oppression featured within the vignettes about James Cook?
7. What country does the unnamed narrator say is the perfect place for observing people and why?
8. How does the theme of obsession arise within the story about Verheyen?
9. Discuss how the motif of dreams appears within the unnamed narrator's vignettes.
10. How is the loss of purity theme depicted within the narrator's conversation about giving blood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are the topics of inheritance and legacy treated within the novel Flights and how does the treatment of these themes relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
Determine Tokarczuk’s message within the novel Flights regarding the idea of pilgrims and pilgrimage.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Tokarczuk’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Flights.
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