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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. In what year did the Changes culminate in Bulgaria, according to the taxi driver in "Decent People"?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.

2. What grade had G. just finished by the time he met with the unnamed narrator in "Mentor"?
(a) 12th.
(b) 9th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 11th.

3. For what length of time has the unnamed narrator been chatting with Gospodar online before he visits him?
(a) Days.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Months.
(d) Years.

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

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 elbow.
(c) His leg.
(d) His neck.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What emotion does the unnamed narrator experience as a result of losing R.?

5. In what location does Gospodar order the unnamed narrator to undress in the section entitled "Gospodar"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place and for what purpose is the unnamed narrator waiting outside of a McDonald's restaurant?

8. 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?

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

10. Who is M.?

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