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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 did Marie once see while she was cleaning a room that was supposed to be vacant?
(a) A dead snake.
(b) An abandoned child.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A naked man.

2. Which of Marie's former coworkers married an American man and eventually moved to Oregon?
(a) Olga.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Maria.
(d) Rosa.

3. What is the one thing the guest in Room 213 leaves behind in an otherwise clean room?
(a) Feces in the toilet.
(b) Used condoms.
(c) A hypodermic needle.
(d) Leftover food.

4. What had Marie convinced Naseem do to save she and other maids time?
(a) Buy a robot vacuum.
(b) Put wooden platforms under each bed.
(c) Only clean ever other day.
(d) Allow them to reuse bed linens.

5. What is the name of the front desk clerk that Marie was friends with at work?
(a) Emmy.
(b) Ella.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Evie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of the patrons who had been staying in Room 144 do outside the motel earlier?

2. Where does Marie receive a postcard from Evie saying she is "halfway there!" (2)?

3. What were the reasons for the seven deaths at the motel during Marie's time working there?

4. Why does Marie dread cleaning Room 144 after Room 213?

5. What does Marie learn of her former coworker Christine when they bump into each other at a mall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marie convince the former motel owner to put wooden platforms under the motel room beds?

2. What "self-defense behavior" (1) does Marie enact before entering a room and why?

3. Who is the main character of "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest"? Where is her occupation? How long has she been there?

4. What are some of the tragic things that had happened in the motel during Marie's time working there?

5. What state is Room 213, the first room Marie cleans in the story? What is in it that she dislikes?

6. What is meant by "the illusion of clean" (3) in regards to Marie's work?

7. Why did Evie and Marie lose touch? What was the last correspondence the two had?

8. What are some things that Marie's coworkers had done to her during her time working at the motel?

9. Who is Olga? Why did she leave the motel?

10. What are some of the things Marie has grown accustomed to seeing and having to clean in her line of work?

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