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

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

3. In what location did B.'s parents have a second home to which he brought his friends one weekend?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Romania.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Vitosha.

4. What term does the unnamed narrator use to describe his father's reaction to weakness during his childhood?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Viciousness.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Sorrow.

5. What term does G. use to describe the LGBTQ community in the United States?
(a) Self-righteous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Inane.
(d) Superficial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does it inspire in the unnamed narrator when he realizes that Gospodar feels "no concern at all" (27) for the unnamed narrator's response to him?

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

3. What term does the unnamed narrator use to describe the element that "always claims" him when he "loses track" (22) of where he is?

4. The taxi driver in "Decent People" says that he and his peers felt which overwhelming emotion in their youth?

5. What does the Bulgarian word gumichka mean in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the unnamed narrator describe the feeling he always gets when he "loses track" (22) of his place in the world?

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

3. In what way is D.'s experience different than many Bulgarians and why does it lend a degree of heroism to his reputation in Sofia?

4. Which aspects of the cafe chosen by G. makes it clear to the unnamed narrator that G. had wanted privacy for their discussion?

5. In what ways does the unnamed narrator's sexual partner in "Gospodar" differ from his photographs online and how does the unnamed narrator feel about these discrepancies?

6. What is the unnamed narrator's reason for participating in the protests depicted in the section entitled "Decent People"?

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

8. What aspect of the unnamed narrator's arrival at the apartment depicted in "Gospodar" is designed to be humiliating and why?

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

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

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