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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At whose request are the unnamed narrator and G. meeting in the section entitled "Mentor"?
(a) G.'s guidance counselor.
(b) The unnamed narrator's.
(c) G.'s mother's.
(d) G.'s.

2. At the end of the "strange litany" (29) the unnamed narrator delivers about his desires, he repeats over and over, "I am" (29) what?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Nowhere.

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

4. For how long has the unnamed narrator lived in Sofia by the time of the events in "Mentor"?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 2 years.

5. Which letter of the alphabet does G. use to refer to his friend on whom he has a crush?
(a) L.
(b) X.
(c) M.
(d) B.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the unnamed narrator break in an attempt to procure an escape from Gospodar, who has just raped him?

2. What is NOT an element the unnamed narrator notices about the qualities of the place to which G. has taken him for their conversation?

3. For what length of time has the unnamed narrator been chatting with Gospodar online before he visits him?

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

5. In the section entitled "Decent People," the taxi driver tells the unnamed narrator that it was easy to feel which emotion during the period referred to as "the Changes" (49)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place and for what purpose is the unnamed narrator waiting outside of a McDonald's restaurant?

2. In what way do G.'s assumptions about the American LGBTQ community make him feel isolated?

3. In what way is D.'s experience different than many Bulgarians and why does it lend a degree of heroism to his reputation in Sofia?

4. What aspect of the unnamed narrator's arrival at the apartment depicted in "Gospodar" is designed to be humiliating and why?

5. What information about the unnamed narrator's father has been revealed by the time "Decent People" comes to a close?

6. What mistake does G. point out in his own poem and what message is he sending to the unnamed narrator with this admission?

7. In what way is foreshadowing utilized within the section entitled "Gospodar"?

8. Who is M.?

9. How does the unnamed narrator describe the feeling he always gets when he "loses track" (22) of his place in the world?

10. Who or what is Gospodar, as depicted in the section of the same name?

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