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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III: "The Little Saint" and "An Evening Out".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unnamed narrator meets his student G. in front of a McDonald's in Slaveykov, which is a what?
(a) A promenade.
(b) A square.
(c) A boardwalk.
(d) A reservoir.

2. Which European river has the unnamed narrator just seen in "A Valediction," at which point he describes it as the first river he has seen that is comparable in size "to those [he] had grown up beside in America"? (133)
(a) Danube.
(b) Volga.
(c) Seine.
(d) Rhine.

3. In the section entitled "A Valediction," the unnamed narrator states that R. had returned to Sofia in which month?
(a) November.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) September.

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

5. Whose poems had shocked the unnamed narrator in class one day?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Frank O'Hara.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Allan Ginsberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does G. use to refer to the unnamed narrator, causing him to be startled?

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

3. What color hair does Svetcheto have, according to the unnamed narrator?

4. What is the first command Gospodar gives to the unnamed narrator once he enters the apartment?

5. What does the Bulgarian term "skupi" (89) mean in English?

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