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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 occurred in the motel 5 times while Marie worked there?
(a) Marie quit.
(b) Police raids.
(c) Animal sacrifices.
(d) Movie stars stayed there.

2. What object does Marie replace in the bathroom that is said to have "dementia" (3)?
(a) The shower liner.
(b) The bath mat.
(c) The towels.
(d) The toilet paper roll.

3. Why did one of Marie's former coworkers go to prison for four years?
(a) She committed statutory rape at the motel.
(b) She was selling drugs to motel guests.
(c) She robbed Naseem at gunpoint.
(d) She tried to kill a motel guest.

4. What did one of the patrons who had been staying in Room 144 do outside the motel earlier?
(a) Yell at passersby.
(b) Pass out drunk.
(c) Defecate on the sidewalk.
(d) Throw up.

5. What were the reasons for the seven deaths at the motel during Marie's time working there?
(a) 5 heart attacks, one stabbing, and one suicide.
(b) Three murders and four suicides.
(c) Four heart attacks, two overdoses, one drunk woman fell over a railing.
(d) 4 overdoses and 3 satanic rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character's religion in "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest"?

2. Who owns the motel where Marie works?

3. Who is the main character of "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest"?

4. What term did Marie use in Bible study when referring to Satan?

5. What is the one thing the guest in Room 213 leaves behind in an otherwise clean room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Marie run from a room laughing after seeing a guest when she though the room was vacant? How did Evie react when Marie told her?

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

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