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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II, Loving R.: "A Valediction" and III: "Harbor".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Bulgarian word gumichka mean in English?
(a) Home.
(b) Condom.
(c) Lover.
(d) Please.

2. The culmination of the Changes in Bulgaria involved the fall of what type of political system?
(a) Communist.
(b) Totalitarian.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Socialist.

3. R. asks which character to make the decision for him about whether to return to Lisbon?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) M.
(c) Z.
(d) N.

4. What kind of forums does G. automatically assume the unnamed narrator is referring to before the matter is cleared up?
(a) Gaming.
(b) Sex.
(c) Political.
(d) Romance.

5. The section entitled "Cleanness" takes place in the middle of which month?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) January.
(d) June.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time when the events in "Gospodar" take place, for how long has R. been gone from the unnamed narrator's life?

2. In the section entitled "Decent People," the taxi driver tells the unnamed narrator that it was easy to feel which emotion during the period referred to as "the Changes" (49)?

3. When R. arrives to meet up with the unnamed narrator in the section entitled "Cleanness," what article of clothing is he NOT wearing?

4. What is NOT an emotion named by G. when he describes B.'s reaction to his admission of romantic feelings?

5. About how many feet tall is the Christmas tree R. and the unnamed narrator bring home on the train in "The Frog King"?

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