Flights: A Novel Test | Final Test - Medium

Olga Tokarczuk
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 158 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Flights: A Novel Test | Final Test - Medium

Olga Tokarczuk
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 158 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?
(a) Reality.
(b) World.
(c) Goal.
(d) Pilgrim.

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

3. The man sitting next to the narrator during the flight from Irkutsk to Moscow has what job?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Travel agent.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Garbage collector.

4. The narrator claims that when a beached whale is saved and is sent to a particular country, its fate is what?
(a) To be turned into dog food.
(b) To have its blubber harvested.
(c) To die alone.
(d) To live in an aquarium.

5. Achilles's mother dipped him into the river Styx in order to accomplish what goal?
(a) To bind him to her forever.
(b) To banish him from the earth.
(c) To make him immortal.
(d) To give him the power of invisibility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says that the airport in which city is shaped like a spine?

3. After Verheyen's recovery, he shows a remarkable talent for practicing what skill?

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

5. The narrator discusses a statue of what entity that appeared to have arrived in the world fully-formed?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the theme of regret appear within the story of Van Horssen and his mentor Verheyen?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Annushka?

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

9. How is the theme of family bonds demonstrated within Annushka's story?

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

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