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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. The youngest cast member in the opera entitled Lakme that is attended by the unnamed narrator and R. in "A Valediction" is of what age?

2. What kinds of classes were reportedly the only ones R. enjoyed in high school?

3. How many minutes after the end of the opera is the light show scheduled to begin?

4. What is Tsavarets, according to the unnamed narrator?

5. At the time of the events depicted in "Cleanness," what subject is R. studying at college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what element of R.'s personality does the title of the section called "Cleanness" refer?

3. When the section entitled "Harbor" begins, at which sight is the unnamed narrator gazing?

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

5. To what location do the unnamed narrator and R. travel together during R.'s winter break in "The Frog King"?

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

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

8. In what way does Greenwell clearly want the reader to see the unnamed narrator's comparison of Portugal and Bulgaria as flawed?

9. Who calls out “Zapovyadatie” (135) in the city of Rousse, Bulgaria, and why?

10. To what type of location does R. drag the unnamed narrator in "The Frog King" and what experience does the unnamed narrator have as a result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss R.'s role within the events of the book and explain how his character helps to further develop certain themes inherent in Greenwell's piece.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the role of family within the text Cleanness. What types of family relationships are represented and how does Greenwell use their variety to inform many of the work's themes?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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