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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 type of transportation are the unnamed narrator and R. using when "A Valediction" opens?

2. On what type of website did R. and the unnamed narrator first make contact with one another?

3. In what country is the city of Rousse, where the unnamed narrator and R. had gone together just before the opening of "Valediction"?

4. R. asks which character to make the decision for him about whether to return to Lisbon?

5. The unnamed narrator states in "A Valediction" that before meeting R., he had never desired which element in his relationships?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what reason has the narrator traveled to the location depicted in the section entitled "Harbor"?

3. To what event does the title of the section called "The Frog King" refer?

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

5. In what way is R. different from the men the unnamed narrator has dated before, as depicted in Part II, Loving R.: "Cleanness"?

6. What special attachment does the unnamed narrator have to the opera Lakme?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What message does Greenwell send within the pages of Cleanness concerning the disparity between appearance and reality?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Greenwell's book from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?

Essay Topic 3

How is the role of the educator treated within Cleanness and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?

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