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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. The vignette entitled "The Achilles Tendon" opens in what year?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1442.
(d) 1692.
2. The narrator uses what location to demonstrate the vast feelings of being present experienced by the passengers flying from Irkutsk to Moscow?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Timbuktu.
(d) Cucamonga.
3. In the vignette entitled "Purity of Blood," the narrator is staying at a hotel in what city?
(a) London.
(b) Prague.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Paris.
4. In the vignette entitled "Flights," the narrator states that "everything is" (227) what in hell?
(a) On fire.
(b) Lost.
(c) Hypothetical.
(d) Pointy.
5. The narrator describes the nocturnal brain using an allusion to which mythological figure?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Eros.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Pandora.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of tree is featured in the vignette in which the narrator meets a man from China?
2. Kunstkammer is the word for "cabinet of curiosities" (267) in what language?
3. The narrator claims that what kind of "sin will be forgiven" (177)?
4. The narrator repeats again and again that each of her "pilgrimages aims at some other" (266) what?
5. The narrator notes that the airport in which city is shaped like a hieroglyphic?
Short Essay Questions
1. What had the woman in rags been mumbling to Annushka when Annushka became frightened?
2. Who is Annushka?
3. What elements does the unnamed narrator consider when deciding whether a story or a lecture is more appropriate for the story she has to tell?
4. What object does Tokarczuk use in a metaphor characterizing the nocturnal brain and why?
5. What element does the narrator name as a "natural" (227) characteristic of the world?
6. Discuss how the motif of dreams appears within the unnamed narrator's vignettes.
7. How do Existentialist ideals creep into Verheyen's later writings?
8. When the words of Annushka's supposed tormentor are revealed, what had the old woman been saying?
9. Discuss the unnamed narrator's feelings about languages and secrecy.
10. In what way does the theme of regret appear within the story of Van Horssen and his mentor Verheyen?
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