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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What metaphorical object does Tokarczuk use to make a point about aberration and reality?
2. What motivation drives humans to travel, according to the lectures focused on travel psychology?
3. The narrator enjoys the idea of performing what activity as a moral obligation to one's people?
4. When the narrator attends the lecture about travel psychology, what does she conclude about its length?
5. What type of beverage does the narrator invoke to describe the way in which darkness unfolds?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the unnamed narrator feel about islands and why?
2. What type of metaphor does Tokarczuk use to describe the river near her childhood home and why?
3. What method does the narrator prefer when dealing with locations in which she has been hurt?
4. Discuss an instance of Tokarczuk employing satire in order to poke fun at a particular group.
5. To what advice does the title "Guidance from Cioran" refer?
6. How does the theme of deception arise within Blau's visit to Mrs. Mole's home?
7. The narrator's use of the word pilgrim throughout the novel is an allusion to what great work of literature?
8. How is personification used to underscore the deep love Blau has for the study of anatomy?
9. What are the narrator's feelings about guidebooks?
10. Since childhood, what sight has filled Blau with a feeling of happiness and fulfillment?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Tokarczuk from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
Look carefully at the passages of Flights that use allusion. What is Tokarczuk’s purpose for using a particular category of allusions with Flights and how does the use of allusion support the text’s goals?
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within Flights and what is Tokarczuk’s message regarding these themes?
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