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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe Gospodar's face?
(a) Strong.
(b) Generic.
(c) Mean.
(d) Beautiful.

2. For what length of time has the unnamed narrator been chatting with Gospodar online before he visits him?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Years.
(c) Months.
(d) Days.

3. What part of the unnamed narrator's body does Gospodar bite when the unnamed narrator tells him to stop?
(a) His elbow.
(b) His neck.
(c) His shoulder.
(d) His leg.

4. What beverage do the unnamed narrator and G. drink during their conversation in "The Mentor"?
(a) Milk.
(b) Tea.
(c) Rum.
(d) Coffee.

5. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) February.
(d) May.

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

7. What term does the unnamed narrator use to describe the element that "always claims" him when he "loses track" (22) of where he is?
(a) Panic.
(b) Relief.
(c) Unease.
(d) Anger.

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

9. At what landmark in front of a McDonald's restaurant does the unnamed narrator meet G. in the section entitled "Mentor"?
(a) A planetarium.
(b) A statue.
(c) A fountain.
(d) A staircase.

10. The unnamed narrator gets a text in "Decent People" from which character asking to meet at the fountain in front of the Presidency?
(a) D.
(b) M.
(c) G.
(d) R.

11. What feeling does the unnamed narrator always glean from the experience of "being made an object" (32)?
(a) Shame.
(b) Exhilaration.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Sorrow.

12. In what location did D. complete his undergraduate and graduate studies?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) South Korea.

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

14. Which element of G.'s poem does he deem to be all wrong during his conversation with the unnamed narrator?
(a) The rhyme scheme.
(b) The cadence.
(c) The pronouns.
(d) The diction.

15. 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) Awe.
(b) Unease.
(c) Relief.
(d) Security.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is the city of Sofia located?

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

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

4. The protesters featured in "Decent People" meet in front of which landmark?

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

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