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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 does G. use to refer to the unnamed narrator, causing him to be startled?

2. At the time when the events in "Gospodar" take place, for how long has R. been gone from the unnamed narrator's life?

3. The protesters featured in "Decent People" meet in front of which landmark?

4. The culmination of the Changes in Bulgaria involved the fall of what type of political system?

5. What action does the unnamed narrator plan to take when he reaches his destination in the taxi in "Decent People"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does the unnamed narrator's sexual partner in "Gospodar" differ from his photographs online and how does the unnamed narrator feel about these discrepancies?

2. Who is M.?

3. What major step is the unnamed narrator planning to take at the end of the school year depicted in "Mentor"?

4. In what way does Greenwell go about depicting a vivid portrait of the city of Sofia?

5. What emotion does the unnamed narrator feel most strongly when he thinks about having lost R. in the section called "Gospodar"?

6. What subject does the unnamed narrator bring up when the conversation goes cold early on in "Mentor"?

7. Who or what is Gospodar, as depicted in the section of the same name?

8. What is the unnamed narrator's reason for participating in the protests depicted in the section entitled "Decent People"?

9. How does the unnamed narrator describe the feeling he always gets when he "loses track" (22) of his place in the world?

10. What feeling does the unnamed narrator experience with Gospodar, while noting that he had never experienced it with R.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Greenwell’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Cleanness.

Essay Topic 2

How is the role of the educator treated within Cleanness and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 3

What message does Greenwell send within the pages of Cleanness concerning the disparity between appearance and reality?

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