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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The festival featured in "Harbor" lasts what length of time?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 5 days.

2. 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) The unnamed narrator puts his head on R.'s chest.
(c) R. sits on the unnamed narrator's lap.
(d) They replace the lightbulbs.

3. Which character attends a college called the National Sports Academy?
(a) G.
(b) M.
(c) R.
(d) Z.

4. The meteorological event mentioned in the section entitled "Cleanness" is said to have come from which continent?
(a) Africa.
(b) Asia.
(c) South America.
(d) Australia.

5. What type of sound does R. often make, causing the unnamed narrator to consider it as a sound of "homecoming"? (89)
(a) A groan.
(b) A grumble.
(c) A chuckle.
(d) A grunt.

6. The unnamed narrator silently agrees with R.'s conclusion that one can never be sure of which element of one's own desire?
(a) Its outcome.
(b) Its authenticity.
(c) Its potential.
(d) Its purpose.

7. The unnamed narrator describes a particular feature of R.'s appearance as pouring "a kind of" what "over everything" (97) he does?
(a) His aura.
(b) His energy.
(c) His gaze.
(d) His smile.

8. When R. arrives to meet up with the unnamed narrator in the section entitled "Cleanness," what article of clothing is he NOT wearing?
(a) Windbreaker.
(b) Scarf.
(c) Hat.
(d) Winter coat.

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

10. What type of people in Rousse are said to call out "Zapovyadaite" (135)?
(a) Children.
(b) Protesters.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Wives.

11. The unnamed narrator tells the reader that he would like to take what action in relation to R. in "Cleanness"?
(a) To roost.
(b) To sleep.
(c) To root.
(d) To dream.

12. 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) Bulgaria.
(c) Romania.
(d) France.

13. How many minutes after the end of the opera is the light show scheduled to begin?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 60.

14. About how many feet tall is the Christmas tree R. and the unnamed narrator bring home on the train in "The Frog King"?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

15. What type of familiar frozen food does R. seek out in order to remind him of Lisbon?
(a) Linguini.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Chop suey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was R. born and raised?

2. Which character is the youngest among the members of the American cohort of writers depicted in "Harbor"?

3. To how many people had R. come out as a gay man before he met the unnamed narrator?

4. What are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?

5. The unnamed narrator educates R. about which literary figure in the section entitled "A Valediction"?

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