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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 does the Bulgarian word gumichka mean in English?
(a) Condom.
(b) Home.
(c) Lover.
(d) Please.

2. What object does the unnamed narrator use in a simile to describe the failure of the first topic of conversation during his meeting with G.?
(a) A cloth.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A cloud.
(d) An apple.

3. What kind of forums does G. automatically assume the unnamed narrator is referring to before the matter is cleared up?
(a) Romance.
(b) Gaming.
(c) Political.
(d) Sex.

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

5. What term does the unnamed narrator use to describe his father's reaction to weakness during his childhood?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Viciousness.
(d) Ardor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe Gospodar's face?

2. What sort of body of water in Sofia, Bulgaria is called Perlovska, though no one uses its proper name?

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

4. 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)?

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

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