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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator not displeased with in The Subjective Side?
(a) His wife.
(b) The weather.
(c) The state of affairs in his hometown.
(d) His attire that day.

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

3. 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.

4. What were on the bus in Hesitation?
(a) Busy-bodies.
(b) Clothing-wearers.
(c) Skeletons.
(d) People.

5. According to the narrator in Surprises, what was the young man doing?
(a) Trying to pick a quarrel.
(b) Trying to find a seat on the bus.
(c) Trying to sew a button on his lapel.
(d) Trying to read his map.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the friend tell the young man he should do in Word-Composition?

2. What is the date of writing of Spectral?

3. What needed to be added to the man's overcoat in Homeoptotes?

4. Where should the man add a button, according to Exclamations?

5. Who did the young man speak to, according to Litotes?

(see the answer key)

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