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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term did Marie use in Bible study when referring to Satan?
2. What is the one thing Marie dislikes cleaning most in rooms?
3. What does Marie soon do after seeing a naked guest emerge from the bathroom?
4. Why did one of Marie's former coworkers go to prison for four years?
5. What did one of the patrons who had been staying in Room 144 do outside the motel earlier?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some things that Marie's coworkers had done to her during her time working at the motel?
2. What is meant by "the illusion of clean" (3) in regards to Marie's work?
3. Who is Christine? How does Marie feel about her life when they run into each other at a mall?
4. 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?
5. What "self-defense behavior" (1) does Marie enact before entering a room and why?
6. Why did Evie and Marie lose touch? What was the last correspondence the two had?
7. Who is Olga? Why did she leave the motel?
8. What are some of the tragic things that had happened in the motel during Marie's time working there?
9. Why did Marie convince the former motel owner to put wooden platforms under the motel room beds?
10. What are some of the things Marie has grown accustomed to seeing and having to clean in her line of work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay analyzing the title "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest." Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay discussing the setting of "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest." In what ways does the setting impact your understanding of the story as well as develop the theme of transience?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about why Marie stays at the motel for so long when so many others have come and gone over the years.
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