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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. What term does G. use to describe the LGBTQ community in the United States?
(a) Self-righteous.
(b) Superficial.
(c) Inane.
(d) Angry.

2. What action does the unnamed narrator plan to take when he reaches his destination in the taxi in "Decent People"?
(a) Recite.
(b) Protest.
(c) Lecture.
(d) Dance.

3. Who wants to attend the light show after the conclusion of the opera performance in "A Valediction"?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) R.
(c) R. and the unnamed narrator.
(d) Neither R. nor the unnamed narrator.

4. What is NOT an element the unnamed narrator notices about the qualities of the place to which G. has taken him for their conversation?
(a) G. is speaking in hushed tones.
(b) They are sitting in a booth.
(c) No one else is present.
(d) No one else is speaking English.

5. The unnamed narrator asserts that his relationship with which character had always lacked the feeling "of being made an object" (32)?
(a) R.
(b) M.
(c) G.
(d) Z.

Short Answer Questions

1. R. leads the unnamed narrator to what type of location, where the unnamed narrator sees something he feels contains "a promise for" (120) him?

2. At one point in "Mentor," the unnamed narrator feels himself "drawn more decisively within the compass of" (9) G.'s what?

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

4. What language does the unnamed narrator use to answer Gospodar's question about what he desires?

5. About what type of meteorological event did G. and his friends write in their poems for the unnamed narrator's class?

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