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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I: "Gospodar" and "Decent People".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of body of water in Sofia, Bulgaria is called Perlovska, though no one uses its proper name?
(a) Lake.
(b) Bay.
(c) River.
(d) Reservoir.

2. The unnamed narrator states that Gospodar is as old as which character?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His older brother.

3. At one point in "Mentor," the unnamed narrator feels himself "drawn more decisively within the compass of" (9) G.'s what?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Annoyance.
(c) Joy.
(d) Youth.

4. What is NOT an element that G. associates with the LGBTQ community in the United States?
(a) Television.
(b) Drug use.
(c) Sex.
(d) Pop songs.

5. In what type of abode does Gospodar live?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A house.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A hostel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poems had shocked the unnamed narrator in class one day?

2. What feeling does the unnamed narrator always glean from the experience of "being made an object" (32)?

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

4. The unnamed narrator describes the ubiquitous apartment blocks in Sofia as looking like what objects?

5. What does the Bulgarian word gumichka mean in English?

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