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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Flights" - "Boarding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many letters from Josefine Soliman to Francis I are included within the novel Flights?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. Nebojsa claims that travelers are pure because they have no time to think about what subject?
(a) The past.
(b) Sex.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

3. For what reason does the narrator believe that her own body will not undergo a transformation at the time of her death?
(a) She believes that she has not served humankind.
(b) She has too many pessimistic qualities.
(c) She is not a devout practicer of religion.
(d) She believes that she has been too happy as a mortal being.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The words "Mobility is Reality" (226) appear in the Moscow airport within an advertisement for what product?

2. Toward what types of things has the narrator always been drawn?

3. The narrator deems her friend who does not like to travel alone to be a bad what?

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

5. In the vignette entitled "Travel Tales," the narrator wonders whether she should speak in what form, rather than in stories?

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