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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. The unnamed narrator depicts his break-up with R. as having taken place through which communication method?
(a) Text message.
(b) Letter.
(c) Video chat.
(d) Phone call.

2. At the time of the events depicted in "Harbor," the unnamed narrator has had no contact with R. for what length of time?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 days.

3. 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?
(a) 20s.
(b) 40s.
(c) Teens.
(d) 30s.

4. To how many people had R. come out as a gay man before he met the unnamed narrator?
(a) 0.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. What are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?
(a) Forests.
(b) Lakes.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Dunes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women belong to the cohort of Bulgarian writers at the festival?

2. Mladost, the setting of the section entitled "Cleanness" is what type of location?

3. The unnamed narrator silently agrees with R.'s conclusion that one can never be sure of which element of one's own desire?

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 claims, "There's no such thing as a professional" what "in Bulgaria" (155)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does R. plan to do once the trip depicted in "A Valediction" is over?

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

4. For what reason is the unnamed narrator's sighting of the Danube River in "A Valediction" significant?

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

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

7. How does the unnamed narrator describe the abilities of the sea to affect one's perceptions?

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

9. What are revealed to have been the circumstances of the split between R. and the unnamed narrator?

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

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