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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. The narrator remarks that she has a decided aversion to what element of life?
(a) Esotericism.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Constancy.
(d) Games.

2. What object does Tokarczuk use as a metaphor for the river upon her first time there?
(a) A dime.
(b) A ribbon.
(c) An alarm clock.
(d) A paper clip.

3. What are the narrator's feelings about guidebooks?
(a) Every location in them should be avoided.
(b) They are helpful for young travelers.
(c) They are written by people who never travel.
(d) They are destructive in their overanalysis.

4. The narrator compares herself to what part of the body while discussing her role as a writer?
(a) An arm.
(b) An ear.
(c) A leg.
(d) A nose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of trains are discussed in the vignette entitled "Trains for Cowards" (61)?

2. When the narrator attends the lecture about travel psychology, what does she conclude about its length?

3. What type of beverage does the narrator invoke to describe the way in which darkness unfolds?

4. Another one of the pilgrims featured within Flights considers what philosophical work to be more practical than the Bible?

5. The narrator states that darkness causes her to feel like taking what action?

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