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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 is the one thing Marie dislikes cleaning most in rooms?
2. What were the reasons for the seven deaths at the motel during Marie's time working there?
3. What does Marie soon do after seeing a naked guest emerge from the bathroom?
4. What term did Marie use in Bible study when referring to Satan?
5. What term does the main character occasionally use when addressing God?
Short Essay Questions
1. What state is Room 213, the first room Marie cleans in the story? What is in it that she dislikes?
2. What "self-defense behavior" (1) does Marie enact before entering a room and why?
3. Who is Christine? How does Marie feel about her life when they run into each other at a mall?
4. Why did Marie convince the former motel owner to put wooden platforms under the motel room beds?
5. Why did Evie and Marie lose touch? What was the last correspondence the two had?
6. Who is Olga? Why did she leave the motel?
7. What are some of the things Marie has grown accustomed to seeing and having to clean in her line of work?
8. What are some of the tragic things that had happened in the motel during Marie's time working there?
9. Who is the main character of "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest"? Where is her occupation? How long has she been there?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Alexie's decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view from Marie's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Sherman Alexie wrote "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest"? Write an essay explaining what you think the author wanted his readers to understand and feel after reading the story.
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