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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Bodhi Tree" - "Mobility is Reality".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator view the locations in which she has been hurt?
(a) She longs to settle in them.
(b) She obsesses over them.
(c) She makes a point of creating happy memories in them.
(d) She blocks them out of her memory.

2. When the narrator dreams of a huge cloud on the horizon, in what location does she find herself in the dream?
(a) Bikini Island.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Aruba.

3. When Verheyen's student imagines his teacher, he pictures him using what type of writing implement?
(a) A crayon.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A Sharpie.
(d) A feather pen.

4. Another one of the pilgrims featured within Flights considers what philosophical work to be more practical than the Bible?
(a) A work by Cioran.
(b) A work by Nietzsche.
(c) A work by Hobbes.
(d) A work by Descartes.

5. What metaphorical object does Tokarczuk use to make a point about aberration and reality?
(a) An armchair.
(b) A settee.
(c) A chaise lounge.
(d) An ottoman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the first vignettes focus on the narrator's motivations for writing?

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

3. The narrator proclaims that "seeing means" (182) what?

4. A character with what name believes that every human should write a book?

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

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