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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 is NOT an emotion named by G. when he describes B.'s reaction to his admission of romantic feelings?

2. What is NOT an element that G. associates with the LGBTQ community in the United States?

3. The unnamed narrator asserts that his relationship with which character had always lacked the feeling "of being made an object" (32)?

4. What action does Gospodar take that leads the unnamed narrator to feel the action "like a spark along the track" (30) of the narrator's spine?

5. What is the first command Gospodar gives to the unnamed narrator once he enters the apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way is foreshadowing utilized within the section entitled "Gospodar"?

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

4. For what length of time have the unnamed narrator and R. been broken up by the time of the events depicted in "Gospodar"?

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 is M.?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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