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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 narrator claims that when a beached whale is saved and is sent to a particular country, its fate is what?
(a) To die alone.
(b) To live in an aquarium.
(c) To be turned into dog food.
(d) To have its blubber harvested.

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

3. In what liquid is Verheyen's amputated body part preserved?
(a) Gin.
(b) Ether.
(c) Formaldehyde.
(d) Brandy.

4. The woman with the red suitcase has how many grown children?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

5. The narrator notes that the airport in which city is shaped like a hieroglyphic?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Denver.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters from Josefine Soliman to Francis I are included within the novel Flights?

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

3. The woman with the red suitcase stops in what location on her way home from visiting her ex-lover?

4. The narrator declares that reception areas are better than cafes for what reason?

5. In the vignette entitled "Whales, or: Drowning in Air," the narrator depicts a beached whale in what location?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What country does the unnamed narrator say is the perfect place for observing people and why?

3. Discuss the unnamed narrator's feelings about languages and secrecy.

4. In what way does the unnamed narrator show an affinity for secrecy?

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

6. In what way does the theme of regret appear within the story of Van Horssen and his mentor Verheyen?

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

8. Who is Annushka?

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

10. Discuss how the motif of dreams appears within the unnamed narrator's vignettes.

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