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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.
(b) G.'s guidance counselor.
(c) The unnamed narrator's.
(d) G.'s mother's.

2. Gospodar is Bulgarian for which English word or words?
(a) Master or lord.
(b) Man or boy.
(c) King or prince.
(d) Devil or angel.

3. What realization did G. come to about B. once B. started dating their mutual friend, who was female?
(a) He was in love with M.
(b) He was straight.
(c) He was in love with B.
(d) He was trans.

4. Whose poems had shocked the unnamed narrator in class one day?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Allan Ginsberg.
(c) Frank O'Hara.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

5. The protesters featured in "Decent People" meet in front of which landmark?
(a) The Glass Museum.
(b) The Modern Art Museum.
(c) The Museum of Natural History.
(d) The Archaeological Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?

2. What new topic does the unnamed narrator introduce when the first topic of conversation with G. falls flat?

3. The unnamed narrator gets a text in "Decent People" from which character asking to meet at the fountain in front of the Presidency?

4. About what type of meteorological event did G. and his friends write in their poems for the unnamed narrator's class?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What feeling does the unnamed narrator experience with Gospodar, while noting that he had never experienced it with R.?

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

3. 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?

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

5. What major step is the unnamed narrator planning to take at the end of the school year depicted in "Mentor"?

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

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

8. Who is M.?

9. What is the unnamed narrator's reason for participating in the protests depicted in the section entitled "Decent People"?

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

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