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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Flights" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In a vignette composed of only one sentence, a time change results in an hour-long flight appearing to be how long?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

4. The vignette entitled "30,000 Guilders" takes place in what century?
(a) The 17th.
(b) The 18th.
(c) The 15th.
(d) The 16th.

5. The sanskrit Kali Yuga refers to which cycle of the world?
(a) The final cycle.
(b) The first cycle.
(c) The endless cycle.
(d) The end of the cycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward what types of things has the narrator always been drawn?

2. In what way does the pilgrim who reveres a philosopher interpret what he observes?

3. What object does Tokarczuk use as a metaphor for the river upon her first time there?

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

5. During Annushka's endless trips around the city, she finds a mentor in whom?

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