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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 are the Azores, where R. grew up in Portugal?

2. The unnamed narrator likes to think that his easygoing nature about R.'s habitual tardiness is a result of what?

3. The unnamed narrator describes a particular feature of R.'s appearance as pouring "a kind of" what "over everything" (97) he does?

4. For how many minutes does the light show at Tsaravets generally last?

5. The unnamed narrator describes R's beauty as being "stripped of" (89) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tsaravets, the site depicted in the section called "A Valediction"?

2. For what reason are R. and the unnamed narrator able to spend ten days together in the section entitled "The Frog King"?

3. What ritual do R. and the unnamed narrator always perform when they check into a new hotel room?

4. What object does R. clutch proudly as he rides the train with the unnamed narrator in "The Frog King"?

5. For what reason is the unnamed narrator's sighting of the Danube River in "A Valediction" significant?

6. About what subject does the unnamed narrator teach R. in the section entitled "A Valediction"?

7. To what destination do the unnamed narrator and R. travel for a day trip during their vacation in Italy?

8. Describe the unnamed narrator's story about how he and R. first met one another.

9. What does the unnamed narrator usually do during his breaks from teaching at the high school?

10. What are revealed to have been the circumstances of the split between R. and the unnamed narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the theme of self-exile within Cleanness. What is Greenwell’s message regarding this theme and how do you know?

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

How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within Cleanness and what is Greenwell’s message regarding these themes?

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