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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. What is the pet name used by both R. and the unnamed narrator to refer to one another?
(a) Flupi.
(b) Skupi.
(c) Corpi.
(d) Morpi.

2. How many days together do R. and the unnamed narrator have in front of them when "The Frog King" begins?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

3. Which character scolds the unnamed narrator by telling him, "All this time in Bulgaria...and you're still such an American" (203)?
(a) R.
(b) N.
(c) M.
(d) Z.

4. At what type of establishment does the concert featured in "An Evening Out" take place?
(a) A club.
(b) A dance hall.
(c) A fortress.
(d) A theater.

5. During the break-up conversation between R. and the unnamed narrator, which adjective did R. use to describe their relationship?
(a) Impossible.
(b) Numbing.
(c) Unfulfilling.
(d) Crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. A figure created in the image of which creature is burned at the New Year celebration during the vacation the unnamed narrator and R. take together?

2. The unnamed narrator describes a particular feature of R.'s appearance as pouring "a kind of" what "over everything" (97) he does?

3. At the end of the "strange litany" (29) the unnamed narrator delivers about his desires, he repeats over and over, "I am" (29) what?

4. Who takes a picture of the unnamed narrator in "An Evening Out"?

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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