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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. What is the pet name used by both R. and the unnamed narrator to refer to one another?
(a) Corpi.
(b) Skupi.
(c) Flupi.
(d) Morpi.

2. R. asks which character to make the decision for him about whether to return to Lisbon?
(a) M.
(b) Z.
(c) The unnamed narrator.
(d) N.

3. How does R. feel about the country where he was born and raised?
(a) He is ambivalent about it.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He prizes it only during holidays.

4. The unnamed narrator is a participant in which type of festival within the section entitled "Harbor"?
(a) Film.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Music.
(d) Literary.

5. The meteorological event mentioned in the section entitled "Cleanness" is said to have come from which continent?
(a) Asia.
(b) Australia.
(c) South America.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animal is Lilliyana, the animal sought out and fed periodically by the unnamed narrator and R.?

2. How many days together do R. and the unnamed narrator have in front of them when "The Frog King" begins?

3. How old was R. when he and the unnamed narrator met one another?

4. The unnamed narrator describes a particular feature of R.'s appearance as pouring "a kind of" what "over everything" (97) he does?

5. The unnamed narrator states in "A Valediction" that before meeting R., he had never desired which element in his relationships?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the unnamed narrator's story about how he and R. first met one another.

2. What does the unnamed narrator usually do during his breaks from teaching at the high school?

3. For what reason are R. and the unnamed narrator able to spend ten days together in the section entitled "The Frog King"?

4. For what reason has the narrator traveled to the location depicted in the section entitled "Harbor"?

5. To what event does the title of the section called "The Frog King" refer?

6. To what element of R.'s personality does the title of the section called "Cleanness" refer?

7. Who calls out “Zapovyadatie” (135) in the city of Rousse, Bulgaria, and why?

8. When the section entitled "Harbor" begins, at which sight is the unnamed narrator gazing?

9. To what location do the unnamed narrator and R. travel together during R.'s winter break in "The Frog King"?

10. What special attachment does the unnamed narrator have to the opera Lakme?

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