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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 section entitled "A Valediction" takes place in the middle of which month?

2. Which character runs the website for the festival featured in "Harbor"?

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

4. During the break-up conversation between R. and the unnamed narrator, which adjective did R. use to describe their relationship?

5. The unnamed narrator silently agrees with R.'s conclusion that one can never be sure of which element of one's own desire?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Tsaravets, the site depicted in the section called "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

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

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

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

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