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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Litotes?
(a) It tries to be overly-dramatic.
(b) The narrator is named.
(c) The young man is named.
(d) It is very short.

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

3. How is the young man described in Litotes?
(a) Plain.
(b) Long-necked.
(c) Ruggedly handsome.
(d) Not very intelligent.

4. What takes the place for Italianismes in the book?
(a) Casual.
(b) For Ze Frrensh.
(c) Opera English.
(d) Official Letter.

5. What word is misspelled and corrected in Official Letter?
(a) Provoke.
(b) Exaggerated.
(c) Animation.
(d) Addendum.

6. What is the third reaction given when the author of the Preface explains what work is being done?
(a) "How long have you been working on that?"
(b) "Ah."
(c) "Can I read it?"
(d) "Okay."

7. Who is the narrator of Another Subjectivity?
(a) The young man.
(b) The second man.
(c) A woman on the bus.
(d) The bus driver.

8. How is the man's neck described in Prognostication?
(a) Ridiculously long.
(b) Like a swan's.
(c) Skeleton-like.
(d) Giraffe-like.

9. What complaint does the man have in Polyptotes?
(a) His toes are being treaded on.
(b) His neck is being twisted.
(c) His ribs are being jabbed into.
(d) His shoulder is being wrenched.

10. How many variations of the basic story were created by 1942?
(a) 50.
(b) 99.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

11. What was the young man's complaint in Word-Composition?
(a) You're jostleseeming me.
(b) You're lazaresquaring me.
(c) You're lutetioing me.
(d) You're massitudinarily in the aisle.

12. What is unusual about the hat in the story?
(a) It has a cord.
(b) It is being worn during the day.
(c) It has a ribbon.
(d) It is felt.

13. What is personified in Noble?
(a) Discord.
(b) The man's toes.
(c) The hat.
(d) Courage.

14. Why did the author stop writing variations by 1946?
(a) He died.
(b) He judged the number to be sufficient.
(c) He sold the variations that were written to a publisher.
(d) He ran out of ideas for variations.

15. How is the man's neck described in Noble?
(a) Like a swan.
(b) Like a giraffe.
(c) Like a snake.
(d) Like an elephant's trunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the travelers called in Metaphorically?

2. What was one of the characteristics of the young man in Passive?

3. How is Insistence similar to Double Entry?

4. What is the number of the bus in Narrative?

5. What is the narrator not displeased with in The Subjective Side?

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