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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about The Rainbow?
(a) The narrator focuses on a rainbow outside rather than the events on the bus.
(b) It is raining.
(c) Objects and people are given colors.
(d) No colors are used in the piece.

2. What is the number of the bus in Narrative?
(a) 84.
(b) 11.
(c) 19.
(d) 7.

3. Why does the narrator of Word Game describe the man as ridiculous?
(a) He is not carrying a bayonet.
(b) He is carrying a pigeon.
(c) He is dressed for the opera.
(d) He is not wearing galoshes.

4. Who is the translator of Exercises in Style?
(a) There is no translator; it was written in English.
(b) Barbara Wright.
(c) A. S. Byatt.
(d) Raymond Queneau.

5. What is the focus of Animism?
(a) The first man's hat.
(b) The first man's overcoat.
(c) The bus driver's seat.
(d) The second man's shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the man's neck described in Prognostication?

2. According to the narrator in Surprises, what was the young man doing?

3. How much time passed in Litotes until the narrator saw the man again?

4. How is the young man described in Litotes?

5. According to Metaphorically, where did the narrator see the man again?

(see the answer key)

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