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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 of the vignettes focuses on a poet who works in what capacity?
(a) As a doctor.
(b) As a judge.
(c) As a travel guide.
(d) As a chef.

2. One of Flight's vignettes sees the narrator judging a friend of hers who hates to travel in what manner?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Cheaply.
(d) Alone.

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

4. The owner of the donkeys sells tourists trips meant to mimic the journey of whom?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) John the Baptist.
(d) Gandhi.

5. The first vignette in Flight describes the narrator's discovery of what element as a toddler?
(a) Sunrises.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. One vignette focuses on a ruler from Istanbul who rounds up what kinds of stray animals and puts them on an island?

2. What are the categories of television identified by the narrator when she has insomnia?

3. In what way does the pilgrim who reveres a philosopher interpret what he observes?

4. How is Dr. Blau's talk about silicone plastination received by his audience?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conclusions does the narrator draw about islands and why?

3. What type of metaphor does Tokarczuk use to describe the river near her childhood home and why?

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

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

6. What is ironic about Blau's "unproblematic" (133) romantic life prior to his marriage?

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

8. Describe the unnamed narrator's first childhood experience as a traveler.

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

10. Discuss the qualities of Flights that could qualify it as a Postmodern work of literature.

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