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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. How many classes of 12th graders does the unnamed narrator teach in the narrative present of "Mentor"?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

3. What is Tsavarets, according to the unnamed narrator?
(a) A prison.
(b) A zoo.
(c) A fortress.
(d) A museum.

4. In what country is the city of Sofia located?
(a) Bulgaria.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Romania.

5. The festival featured in "Harbor" lasts what length of time?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which letter of the alphabet does G. use to refer to his friend on whom he has a crush?

2. The unnamed narrator wonders whether R. is coming to their scheduled meet-up how many minutes after the agreed-upon time in "Cleanness"?

3. In which year did Tsaravets fall, according to the unnamed narrator in "A Valediction"?

4. In "A Valediction," the unnamed narrator muses about "the false similarity" (140) between which two words?

5. 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)

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