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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. The taxi driver in "Decent People" says that he and his peers felt which overwhelming emotion in their youth?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Hope.
(c) Malaise.
(d) Sadness.

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

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

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

5. What part of the unnamed narrator's body does Gospodar bite when the unnamed narrator tells him to stop?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His leg.
(c) His neck.
(d) His elbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator asserts that his relationship with which character had always lacked the feeling "of being made an object" (32)?

2. When G. tells the unnamed narrator about his friendships with three other students, the unnamed narrator feels what element develop between them?

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

4. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place?

5. What kind of forums does the unnamed narrator suggest to G. when he provides advice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What subject does the unnamed narrator bring up when the conversation goes cold early on in "Mentor"?

6. In what way does Greenwell go about depicting a vivid portrait of the city of Sofia?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. Who is M.?

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