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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II, Loving R.: "Cleanness" and "The Frog King".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does the unnamed narrator always glean from the experience of "being made an object" (32)?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Exhilaration.
(d) Shame.

2. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe Gospodar's face?
(a) Mean.
(b) Generic.
(c) Strong.
(d) Beautiful.

3. 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) Pride.
(b) Envy.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Security.

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

5. Mladost, the setting of the section entitled "Cleanness" is what type of location?
(a) A prefecture.
(b) A province.
(c) A city.
(d) A neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the unnamed narrator use to answer Gospodar's question about what he desires?

2. In what year did the Changes culminate in Bulgaria, according to the taxi driver in "Decent People"?

3. What type of familiar frozen food does R. seek out in order to remind him of Lisbon?

4. The unnamed narrator take the train for a day trip to what city during their European vacation featured in "The Frog King"?

5. The unnamed narrator describes R's beauty as being "stripped of" (89) what?

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