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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Here I Am"- "Wikipedia".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Toward what types of things has the narrator always been drawn?
(a) Shiny.
(b) False.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Broken.

3. The narrator remarks that rarity is frequently rewarded with what?
(a) Value.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Constancy.

4. How many of the first vignettes focus on the narrator's motivations for writing?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. The narrator's first true experience with travel takes place during what period of her life?
(a) When she is an infant.
(b) When she is a young child.
(c) When she is a teenager.
(d) When she is a preteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first pilgrim featured in the narrative tells the narrator that the things he has seen are now what?

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

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

4. What type of receptacle is featured in the vignette about the collection of oddities?

5. Once Kunicki's wife and child go missing, the locals keep repeating to Kunicki that the island is not what?

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