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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. In what country is the city of Rousse, where the unnamed narrator and R. had gone together just before the opening of "Valediction"?
(a) Bulgaria.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Romania.

2. What are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Forests.
(c) Lakes.
(d) Dunes.

3. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe R.'s reaction to the opera performance?
(a) Bored.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Awed.

4. To how many people had R. come out as a gay man before he met the unnamed narrator?
(a) 5.
(b) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. How many minutes after the end of the opera is the light show scheduled to begin?
(a) 60.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location do the unnamed narrator and R. spend a number of days together during R.'s winter vacation?

2. What is Tsavarets, according to the unnamed narrator?

3. The section entitled "A Valediction" takes place in the middle of which month?

4. On what type of website did R. and the unnamed narrator first make contact with one another?

5. Which character is the youngest among the members of the American cohort of writers depicted in "Harbor"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the unnamed narrator's story about how he and R. first met one another.

2. In what way does Greenwell clearly want the reader to see the unnamed narrator's comparison of Portugal and Bulgaria as flawed?

3. What object does R. clutch proudly as he rides the train with the unnamed narrator in "The Frog King"?

4. About what subject does the unnamed narrator teach R. in the section entitled "A Valediction"?

5. What are revealed to have been the circumstances of the split between R. and the unnamed narrator?

6. To what type of location does R. drag the unnamed narrator in "The Frog King" and what experience does the unnamed narrator have as a result?

7. To what destination do the unnamed narrator and R. travel for a day trip during their vacation in Italy?

8. To what element of R.'s personality does the title of the section called "Cleanness" refer?

9. For what reason are R. and the unnamed narrator able to spend ten days together in the section entitled "The Frog King"?

10. For what reason is the unnamed narrator's sighting of the Danube River in "A Valediction" significant?

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