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

2. What type of people in Rousse are said to call out "Zapovyadaite" (135)?
(a) Protesters.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Wives.
(d) Children.

3. The unnamed narrator describes R's beauty as being "stripped of" (89) what?
(a) Self-confidence.
(b) Self-pity.
(c) Guile.
(d) Self-regard.

4. 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)?
(a) Envy.
(b) Pride.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Security.

5. How many women belong to the cohort of Bulgarian writers at the festival?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?

2. The unnamed narrator likes to think that his easygoing nature about R.'s habitual tardiness is a result of what?

3. How does R. feel about the country where he was born and raised?

4. The culmination of the Changes in Bulgaria involved the fall of what type of political system?

5. The taxi driver in "Decent People" says that he and his peers felt which overwhelming emotion in their youth?

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