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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many classes of 12th graders does the unnamed narrator teach in the narrative present of "Mentor"?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. What is the first topic discussed by the unnamed narrator and G. during their arranged meeting?
(a) Romance.
(b) Vacation.
(c) College.
(d) War.

3. At the time when the events in "Gospodar" take place, for how long has R. been gone from the unnamed narrator's life?
(a) Years.
(b) Months.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

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

5. What object does the unnamed narrator use in a simile to describe the failure of the first topic of conversation during his meeting with G.?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A cloth.
(c) An apple.
(d) A hammer.

6. 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) No one else is present.
(b) G. is speaking in hushed tones.
(c) They are sitting in a booth.
(d) No one else is speaking English.

7. The unnamed narrator meets his student G. in front of a McDonald's in Slaveykov, which is a what?
(a) A boardwalk.
(b) A square.
(c) A promenade.
(d) A reservoir.

8. What object does the unnamed narrator break in an attempt to procure an escape from Gospodar, who has just raped him?
(a) A vase.
(b) A window.
(c) A lock.
(d) A headboard.

9. How does the unnamed narrator feel when he realizes that Gospodar is not going to send him away?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.

10. When G. tells the unnamed narrator about his friendships with three other students, the unnamed narrator feels what element develop between them?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Kinship.
(c) Division.
(d) Envy.

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

12. What is NOT an element that G. associates with the LGBTQ community in the United States?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Sex.
(c) Television.
(d) Pop songs.

13. The protesters featured in "Decent People" meet in front of which landmark?
(a) The Archaeological Museum.
(b) The Museum of Natural History.
(c) The Glass Museum.
(d) The Modern Art Museum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does the unnamed narrator use to describe his father's reaction to weakness during his childhood?

3. The unnamed narrator states that Gospodar is as old as which character?

4. What object does D. use to document the goings-on at the protests featured in "Decent People"?

5. What grade had G. just finished by the time he met with the unnamed narrator in "Mentor"?

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