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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. One vignette focuses on a ruler from Istanbul who rounds up what kinds of stray animals and puts them on an island?
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Parrots.
(d) Pigeons.

2. Once Kunicki's wife and child go missing, the locals keep repeating to Kunicki that the island is not what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Very big.
(c) Evil.
(d) Evacuating.

3. The fact with which the narrator is most infatuated has to do with what part of the human body?
(a) The appendix.
(b) The tongue.
(c) The nose.
(d) The ear.

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

5. The narrator comes to believe that change is different from permanence in what way?
(a) Permanence is easier than change.
(b) Permanence is nobler than change.
(c) Change is inevitable, while permanence is chosen.
(d) Change is nobler than permanence.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares herself to what part of the body while discussing her role as a writer?

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

3. The sanskrit Kali Yuga refers to which cycle of the world?

4. The narrator pursues a degree in what discipline during her time at the university?

5. As a child, the narrator had dreamt of one day becoming what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Blau's feelings about the discipline of medicine.

2. How does the unnamed narrator feel about islands and why?

3. Discuss an instance of Tokarczuk employing satire in order to poke fun at a particular group.

4. Since childhood, what sight has filled Blau with a feeling of happiness and fulfillment?

5. How does the theme of deception arise within Blau's visit to Mrs. Mole's home?

6. What method does the narrator prefer when dealing with locations in which she has been hurt?

7. How does the theme of isolation arise within the vignettes that focus on Eryk?

8. What is the message contained within the vignette entitled "Travel Sizes"?

9. What does the narrator announce as the aim of each one of her pilgrimages?

10. How is the theme of violence present within the story about the sultan?

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