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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. 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) No one else is speaking English.
(d) They are sitting in a booth.

2. In what type of abode does Gospodar live?
(a) A house.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A hostel.
(d) An apartment.

3. What term does G. use to describe the LGBTQ community in the United States?
(a) Angry.
(b) Self-righteous.
(c) Inane.
(d) Superficial.

4. What object does Gospodar use to whip the unnamed narrator's back as they engage in a sexual encounter?
(a) A cat-o'-nine-tails.
(b) A belt.
(c) A whip.
(d) A riding crop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator states that the best thing about his favorite websites is that they demonstrate that people are never what in their desire?

2. In the section entitled "Decent People," the unnamed narrator runs into someone named M. Who is M.?

3. From what country does the unnamed narrator originally hail?

4. The culmination of the Changes in Bulgaria involved the fall of what type of political system?

5. Whose poems had shocked the unnamed narrator in class one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What emotion does the unnamed narrator feel most strongly when he thinks about having lost R. in the section called "Gospodar"?

2. 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?

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

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

5. In what way does the unnamed narrator use a simile to indicate when his conversation with G. has gone cold?

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

7. What landmark does the unnamed narrator always use to find his dwelling in Sofia and what are its attributes?

8. For what length of time have the unnamed narrator and R. been broken up by the time of the events depicted in "Gospodar"?

9. From what part of the world did the unnamed narrator originally hail?

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

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