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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. How many classes of 12th graders does the unnamed narrator teach in the narrative present of "Mentor"?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

2. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) September.
(d) December.

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

4. 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.

5. What is the first topic discussed by the unnamed narrator and G. during their arranged meeting?
(a) War.
(b) Romance.
(c) Vacation.
(d) College.

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. In what type of abode does Gospodar live?

3. What is NOT an element the unnamed narrator notices about the qualities of the place to which G. has taken him for their conversation?

4. From what country does the unnamed narrator originally hail?

5. How many exemplary poems does the unnamed narrator traditionally keep displayed on the back wall of his classroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who is M.?

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

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

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

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