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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. 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)
(a) Seine.
(b) Volga.
(c) Rhine.
(d) Danube.

2. How many women belong to the cohort of Bulgarian writers at the festival?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?
(a) Blood.
(b) Flesh.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Cowardice.

4. What emotion does it inspire in the unnamed narrator when he realizes that Gospodar feels "no concern at all" (27) for the unnamed narrator's response to him?
(a) Security.
(b) Relief.
(c) Unease.
(d) Awe.

5. What is the second ritual the unnamed narrator and R. always enact when they reach a new hotel together?
(a) They kiss in front of the main window.
(b) They replace the lightbulbs.
(c) R. sits on the unnamed narrator's lap.
(d) The unnamed narrator puts his head on R.'s chest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the defining feature of the landmark the unnamed narrator generally uses to navigate toward home?

2. The unnamed narrator is a participant in which type of festival within the section entitled "Harbor"?

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

4. What is the first ritual the unnamed narrator and R. always enact when they reach a new hotel together?

5. The unnamed narrator states in "A Valediction" that before meeting R., he had never desired which element in his relationships?

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