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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II, Loving R.: "A Valediction" and III: "Harbor".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The taxi driver in "Decent People" says that he and his peers felt which overwhelming emotion in their youth?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Malaise.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sadness.

2. What type of familiar frozen food does R. seek out in order to remind him of Lisbon?
(a) Linguini.
(b) Chop suey.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Pancakes.

3. What language does the unnamed narrator use to answer Gospodar's question about what he desires?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Bulgarian.
(d) Spanish.

4. What emotion does the unnamed narrator experience as a result of losing R.?
(a) Joy.
(b) Grief.
(c) Resignation.
(d) Relief.

5. What new topic does the unnamed narrator introduce when the first topic of conversation with G. falls flat?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) War.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Romance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is the youngest among the members of the American cohort of writers depicted in "Harbor"?

2. What sort of weather element does the unnamed narrator paint as an adversary of security?

3. In what type of abode does Gospodar live?

4. 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)

5. To how many people had R. come out as a gay man before he met the unnamed narrator?

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