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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II, Loving R.: "A Valediction" and III: "Harbor".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Changes culminate in Bulgaria, according to the taxi driver in "Decent People"?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

2. Gospodar is Bulgarian for which English word or words?
(a) Man or boy.
(b) Devil or angel.
(c) King or prince.
(d) Master or lord.

3. At the time when the events in "Gospodar" take place, for how long has R. been gone from the unnamed narrator's life?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Months.
(c) Years.
(d) Days.

4. In "A Valediction," the unnamed narrator muses about "the false similarity" (140) between which two words?
(a) Ardor and arduous.
(b) Ardor and order.
(c) Flee and flea.
(d) Elder and older.

5. 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) 40s.
(b) 30s.
(c) Teens.
(d) 20s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bulgarian term "skupi" (89) mean in English?

2. The protesters featured in "Decent People" meet in front of which landmark?

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

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

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

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