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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 unnamed narrator describes the ubiquitous apartment blocks in Sofia as looking like what objects?
(a) Banks.
(b) Hovels.
(c) Prisons.
(d) Fortresses.

2. What are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Lakes.
(c) Forests.
(d) Dunes.

3. In what country is the city of Rousse, where the unnamed narrator and R. had gone together just before the opening of "Valediction"?
(a) Belgium.
(b) France.
(c) Romania.
(d) Bulgaria.

4. The unnamed narrator educates R. about which literary figure in the section entitled "A Valediction"?
(a) Esther Greenwood.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Dante.
(d) Holden Caulfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the section entitled "Harbor" begins, how long has it been since the unnamed narrator has seen the sea?

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

3. The unnamed narrator likes to think that his easygoing nature about R.'s habitual tardiness is a result of what?

4. In what location does Gospodar order the unnamed narrator to undress in the section entitled "Gospodar"?

5. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?

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