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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) Sadness.
(b) Malaise.
(c) Hope.
(d) Disappointment.

2. In the section entitled "Decent People," the unnamed narrator runs into someone named M. Who is M.?
(a) The unnamed narrator's cousin.
(b) The unnamed narrator's student.
(c) The unnamed narrator's roommate.
(d) The unnamed narrator's friend.

3. What object does D. use to document the goings-on at the protests featured in "Decent People"?
(a) A voice recorder.
(b) A videocamera.
(c) A camera.
(d) A journal.

4. In what location did B.'s parents have a second home to which he brought his friends one weekend?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Vitosha.
(c) Romania.
(d) Istanbul.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does it inspire in the unnamed narrator when he realizes that Gospodar feels "no concern at all" (27) for the unnamed narrator's response to him?

2. The unnamed narrator meets his student G. in front of a McDonald's in Slaveykov, which is a what?

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

4. What beverage do the unnamed narrator and G. drink during their conversation in "The Mentor"?

5. At one point in "Mentor," the unnamed narrator feels himself "drawn more decisively within the compass of" (9) G.'s what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Which aspects of the cafe chosen by G. makes it clear to the unnamed narrator that G. had wanted privacy for their discussion?

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

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

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 is foreshadowing utilized within the section entitled "Gospodar"?

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

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