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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. When G. tells the unnamed narrator about his friendships with three other students, the unnamed narrator feels what element develop between them?
3. The unnamed narrator meets his student G. in front of a McDonald's in Slaveykov, which is a what?
4. From what country does the unnamed narrator originally hail?
5. Gospodar is Bulgarian for which English word or words?
Short Essay Questions
1. What subject does the unnamed narrator bring up when the conversation goes cold early on in "Mentor"?
2. 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?
3. What major step is the unnamed narrator planning to take at the end of the school year depicted in "Mentor"?
4. Who or what is Gospodar, as depicted in the section of the same name?
5. What is the source of G.'s heartbreak, as depicted in the section called "Mentor"?
6. 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?
7. For what length of time have the unnamed narrator and R. been broken up by the time of the events depicted in "Gospodar"?
8. What feeling does the unnamed narrator experience with Gospodar, while noting that he had never experienced it with R.?
9. Which aspects of the cafe chosen by G. makes it clear to the unnamed narrator that G. had wanted privacy for their discussion?
10. What emotion does the unnamed narrator feel most strongly when he thinks about having lost R. in the section called "Gospodar"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why Greenwell instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Cleanness.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Greenwell's choice to tell the story of Cleanness using the first person point-of-view wielded by an unnamed narrator. What elements of the book's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Greenwell’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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