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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 did one of the patrons who had been staying in Room 144 do outside the motel earlier?
2. Why does Marie dread cleaning Room 144 after Room 213?
3. What phrase does Marie use to describe her work, which Father James says can describe people also?
4. What does Marie repeat when entering a room after check-out time?
5. How long does it take Marie to clean the first, tidy room she cleans in the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What "self-defense behavior" (1) does Marie enact before entering a room and why?
2. 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?
3. What state is Room 213, the first room Marie cleans in the story? What is in it that she dislikes?
4. Who is Olga? Why did she leave the motel?
5. Why did Evie and Marie lose touch? What was the last correspondence the two had?
6. What are some things that Marie's coworkers had done to her during her time working at 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 is meant by "the illusion of clean" (3) in regards to Marie's work?
9. What are some of the tragic things that had happened in the motel during Marie's time working there?
10. Why did Marie convince the former motel owner to put wooden platforms under the motel room beds?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about why Marie stays at the motel for so long when so many others have come and gone over the years.
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 analyzing the narrative structure of "Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest." What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.
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