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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 the section entitled "Decent People," the taxi driver tells the unnamed narrator that it was easy to feel which emotion during the period referred to as "the Changes" (49)?
(a) Pride.
(b) Security.
(c) Envy.
(d) Happiness.

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

3. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Flesh.
(d) Blood.

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

5. At one point during the discussion between G. and the unnamed narrator, G. pushes a stack of what objects toward his teacher?
(a) Greeting cards.
(b) College acceptance letters.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.?

2. What language does the unnamed narrator use to answer Gospodar's question about what he desires?

3. What term does G. use to refer to the unnamed narrator, causing him to be startled?

4. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe Gospodar's face?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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