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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 emotion does the unnamed narrator experience as a result of losing R.?
(a) Joy.
(b) Resignation.
(c) Grief.
(d) Relief.

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

3. 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) Nowhere.
(b) Everywhere.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Powerful.

4. 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 hammer.
(b) A cloth.
(c) An apple.
(d) A cloud.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gospodar is Bulgarian for which English word or words?

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

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

5. What feeling does the unnamed narrator always glean from the experience of "being made an object" (32)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does the unnamed narrator's sexual partner in "Gospodar" differ from his photographs online and how does the unnamed narrator feel about these discrepancies?

2. In what way does the unnamed narrator draw a connection between the role of a teacher and the mysterious nature of a teacher's impact?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the source of G.'s heartbreak, as depicted in the section called "Mentor"?

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