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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. When G. tells the unnamed narrator about his friendships with three other students, the unnamed narrator feels what element develop between them?
2. The unnamed narrator states that the best thing about his favorite websites is that they demonstrate that people are never what in their desire?
3. What is the first topic discussed by the unnamed narrator and G. during their arranged meeting?
4. In what location did D. complete his undergraduate and graduate studies?
5. What beverage do the unnamed narrator and G. drink during their conversation in "The Mentor"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place and for what purpose is the unnamed narrator waiting outside of a McDonald's restaurant?
2. What aspect of the unnamed narrator's arrival at the apartment depicted in "Gospodar" is designed to be humiliating and why?
3. In what way does Greenwell go about depicting a vivid portrait of the city of Sofia?
4. In what way is D.'s experience different than many Bulgarians and why does it lend a degree of heroism to his reputation in Sofia?
5. In what way does the unnamed narrator use a simile to indicate when his conversation with G. has gone cold?
6. What mistake does G. point out in his own poem and what message is he sending to the unnamed narrator with this admission?
7. Who or what is Gospodar, as depicted in the section of the same name?
8. What feeling does the unnamed narrator experience with Gospodar, while noting that he had never experienced it with R.?
9. Who is M.?
10. What information about the unnamed narrator's father has been revealed by the time "Decent People" comes to a close?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Greenwell’s messages about guilt and responsibility within Cleanness.
Essay Topic 2
All of the characters in the book have specific yet varied relationships with money. Examine the theme of money in the text and how it affects the various characters.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Greenwell’s book Cleanness. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the book.
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