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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. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator grow up?
2. The unnamed narrator states that the best thing about his favorite websites is that they demonstrate that people are never what in their desire?
3. What action does the unnamed narrator plan to take when he reaches his destination in the taxi in "Decent People"?
4. What part of himself does the unnamed narrator tell the reader that he has hated throughout his life?
5. The unnamed narrator asserts that his relationship with which character had always lacked the feeling "of being made an object" (32)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspect of the unnamed narrator's arrival at the apartment depicted in "Gospodar" is designed to be humiliating and why?
2. In what ways does the unnamed narrator's sexual partner in "Gospodar" differ from his photographs online and how does the unnamed narrator feel about these discrepancies?
3. In what way does the unnamed narrator use a simile to indicate when his conversation with G. has gone cold?
4. For what length of time have the unnamed narrator and R. been broken up by the time of the events depicted in "Gospodar"?
5. What subject does the unnamed narrator bring up when the conversation goes cold early on in "Mentor"?
6. What emotion does the unnamed narrator feel most strongly when he thinks about having lost R. in the section called "Gospodar"?
7. From what part of the world did the unnamed narrator originally hail?
8. In what way does Greenwell go about depicting a vivid portrait of the city of Sofia?
9. What major step is the unnamed narrator planning to take at the end of the school year depicted in "Mentor"?
10. What is the unnamed narrator's reason for participating in the protests depicted in the section entitled "Decent People"?
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
Explicate the theme of self-exile within Cleanness. What is Greenwell’s message regarding this theme and how do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the effects of stress on the book's characters and the coping methods each character uses to deal with emotional turmoil. Which characters' methods are effective, which are ineffective, and how do these varying levels of efficiency affect the messages sent by Greenwell within the text?
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