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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 emotion does it inspire in the unnamed narrator when he realizes that Gospodar feels "no concern at all" (27) for the unnamed narrator's response to him?

2. What object does the unnamed narrator use in a simile to describe the failure of the first topic of conversation during his meeting with G.?

3. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?

4. What realization did G. come to about B. once B. started dating their mutual friend, who was female?

5. The unnamed narrator meets his student G. in front of a McDonald's in Slaveykov, which is a what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What feeling does the unnamed narrator experience with Gospodar, while noting that he had never experienced it with R.?

4. In what way does Greenwell go about depicting a vivid portrait of the city of Sofia?

5. What mistake does G. point out in his own poem and what message is he sending to the unnamed narrator with this admission?

6. What subject does the unnamed narrator bring up when the conversation goes cold early on in "Mentor"?

7. In what way does the unnamed narrator draw a connection between the role of a teacher and the mysterious nature of a teacher's impact?

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

9. What is the unnamed narrator's reason for participating in the protests depicted in the section entitled "Decent People"?

10. In what month does the section entitled "Mentor" take place and for what purpose is the unnamed narrator waiting outside of a McDonald's restaurant?

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 are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the book Cleanness and how does their treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 3

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

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