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

2. What adjective does the unnamed narrator use to describe R.'s reaction to the opera performance?
(a) Awed.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Bored.
(d) Bemused.

3. Which character is the youngest among the members of the American cohort of writers depicted in "Harbor"?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) N.
(c) M.
(d) Z.

4. The section entitled "Cleanness" takes place in the middle of which month?
(a) January.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) October.

5. When the section entitled "Harbor" begins, how long has it been since the unnamed narrator has seen the sea?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 5 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first ritual the unnamed narrator and R. always enact when they reach a new hotel together?

2. The youngest cast member in the opera entitled Lakme that is attended by the unnamed narrator and R. in "A Valediction" is of what age?

3. In the section entitled "A Valediction," the unnamed narrator states that R. had returned to Sofia in which month?

4. What kinds of classes were reportedly the only ones R. enjoyed in high school?

5. In what location do the unnamed narrator and R. spend a number of days together during R.'s winter vacation?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is R. different from the men the unnamed narrator has dated before, as depicted in Part II, Loving R.: "Cleanness"?

2. To what destination do the unnamed narrator and R. travel for a day trip during their vacation in Italy?

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

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

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

6. In what way does Greenwell clearly want the reader to see the unnamed narrator's comparison of Portugal and Bulgaria as flawed?

7. What is Tsaravets, the site depicted in the section called "A Valediction"?

8. To what type of location does R. drag the unnamed narrator in "The Frog King" and what experience does the unnamed narrator have as a result?

9. What action does the priest in "Harbor" take that frightens the other members of the group?

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

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