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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. In what location did B.'s parents have a second home to which he brought his friends one weekend?

2. Gospodar is Bulgarian for which English word or words?

3. At what landmark in front of a McDonald's restaurant does the unnamed narrator meet G. in the section entitled "Mentor"?

4. Whose poems had shocked the unnamed narrator in class one day?

5. What realization did G. come to about B. once B. started dating their mutual friend, who was female?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Which aspects of the cafe chosen by G. makes it clear to the unnamed narrator that G. had wanted privacy for their discussion?

5. What information about the unnamed narrator's father has been revealed by the time "Decent People" comes to a close?

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. In what way does the unnamed narrator draw a connection between the role of a teacher and the mysterious nature of a teacher's impact?

8. What is the source of G.'s heartbreak, as depicted in the section called "Mentor"?

9. In what way do G.'s assumptions about the American LGBTQ community make him feel isolated?

10. What aspect of the unnamed narrator's arrival at the apartment depicted in "Gospodar" is designed to be humiliating and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Cleanness and analyze Greenwell’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by Greenwell in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Cleanness. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Greenwell’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Greenwell’s book Cleanness. What message is Greenwell sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

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