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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. What motivation drives humans to travel, according to the lectures focused on travel psychology?
(a) Desire.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Ennui.
(d) Boredom.

2. The vignette entitled "Sarira" focuses on what kind of person?
(a) A nun.
(b) A sultan.
(c) A stewardess.
(d) A factory worker.

3. During one of the narrator's journeys, she watches what kind of after-dinner entertainment?
(a) An acrobatic routine.
(b) A magician.
(c) A hypnotist.
(d) Belly dancing.

4. The narrator describes a dream in which she reads an article about how to construct what object?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A nest.
(c) A train.
(d) An ocean.

5. The first pilgrim focused upon within the narrative of Flights is whom?
(a) A young man.
(b) A little boy.
(c) A middle-aged man.
(d) An old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sanskrit Kali Yuga refers to which cycle of the world?

2. The two businessmen sitting next to the narrator are traveling to a conference on what subject?

3. What object is used to symbolize the tendency of certain people to seek life improvement through travel?

4. The narrator urges the reader to write at least one sentence on which platform?

5. What emotion does Dr. Blau see when he looks into the man's eyes who also hopes to discover preservation secrets?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what advice does the title "Guidance from Cioran" refer?

4. Since childhood, what sight has filled Blau with a feeling of happiness and fulfillment?

5. Describe Blau's feelings about the discipline of medicine.

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

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

8. How does the theme of isolation arise within the vignettes that focus on Eryk?

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

10. What discordant image is at the center of the vignette entitled "Cleopatras"?

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