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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. At what time does the flight from Irkutsk arrive in Moscow?
(a) 8 in the evening.
(b) 10 in the evening.
(c) 8 in the morning.
(d) 10 in the morning.

2. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator meets a woman who hails from what type of location?
(a) A forest.
(b) A desert.
(c) A peninsula.
(d) An island.

3. After Verheyen's recovery, he shows a remarkable talent for practicing what skill?
(a) Seeing the future.
(b) Writing screenplays.
(c) Sketching human anatomy.
(d) Inventing solutions to problems.

4. When the narrator dreams of cities as enormous tree trunks, what is her estimation of how high the live trees must have reached?
(a) 1500 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 300 kilometers.
(d) 100 kilometers.

5. The narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?
(a) Pilgrim.
(b) Goal.
(c) World.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man sitting next to the narrator during the flight from Irkutsk to Moscow has what job?

2. The narrator explains that the airport in which city is shaped like a computer chip?

3. The narrator claims that what object reveals the natural state of the world?

4. The narrator says that she prefers to be more like a gardener than like a what when it comes to her own narrative?

5. In the vignette entitled "Godzone," a woman from what country packs her red suitcase?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tokarczuk present the theme of being present within the vignette entitled “Irkutsk-Moscow”?

2. How do Existentialist ideals creep into Verheyen's later writings?

3. What object does Tokarczuk use in a metaphor characterizing the nocturnal brain and why?

4. Who is Annushka?

5. In what way does Tokarczuk use dialogue in order to highlight a lack of sensitivity in tourists?

6. What element does the narrator name as a "natural" (227) characteristic of the world?

7. How does the theme of obsession arise within the story about Verheyen?

8. What two points of view does the narrator claim exist in the world and why?

9. How is the theme of family bonds demonstrated within Annushka's story?

10. What significance does the unnamed narrator find in the shapes of airports?

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