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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 does the woman with the red suitcase do for a living?
2. In the vignette entitled "Travel Tales," the narrator wonders whether she should speak in what form, rather than in stories?
3. When Verheyen's student imagines his teacher, he pictures him using what type of writing implement?
4. What action does the narrator urge her readers to take in relation to their lives?
5. The vignette with a title that repeats one word twice uses what word in its title?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does the unnamed narrator show an affinity for secrecy?
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. Who is Annushka?
5. What object does Tokarczuk use in a metaphor characterizing the nocturnal brain and why?
6. How is the loss of purity theme depicted within the narrator's conversation about giving blood?
7. What significance does the unnamed narrator find in the shapes of airports?
8. When the words of Annushka's supposed tormentor are revealed, what had the old woman been saying?
9. Discuss how the motif of dreams appears within the unnamed narrator's vignettes.
10. How is the theme of oppression featured within the vignettes about James Cook?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Flights and analyze Tokarczuk’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 2
What messages does Tokarczuk send about coping mechanisms and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of Kunicki's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Tokarczuk in depicting Kuncki and his family and include in your discussion the reasons that Tokarczuk portrays the characters in these particular ways.
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