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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the man's hat in Speaking Personally?
(a) Quaint.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Fabulous.
(d) Silly.

2. What comparison does the narrator make about himself in Noble?
(a) American.
(b) Red Indian.
(c) Frenchman.
(d) East Indian.

3. What does the narrator of Biased notice about the nearby passengers?
(a) They are all reading newspapers.
(b) They are all carrying briefcases.
(c) They are all male.
(d) They are all female.

4. What needed to be added to the man's overcoat in Homeoptotes?
(a) Buttale.
(b) Buttate.
(c) Buttete.
(d) Buttote.

5. What does the literary term "apostrophe" mean? (Not the punctuation mark.)
(a) An address to an inanimate object.
(b) A seventeen-line poem using a specific rhyme scheme and repetition.
(c) A reference to a well known historical or religious person, event, or idea.
(d) A character used to highlight a specific trait in another character.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the hat described in Retrograde?

2. What is the Preface based on?

3. Where did the narrator see the man again in Anagrams?

4. From what did the young man suffer in Alexandrines?

5. How does the narrator describe the bus conductor in Reactionary?

(see the answer key)

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