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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Metaphorically, where did the narrator see the man again?
(a) Between the glass-adorned mountains.
(b) In a bleak, urban desert.
(c) On a concrete river some ways away.
(d) In the slanting afternoon sun.

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

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

4. How did the argument end in Hesitation?
(a) With a dramatic flourish.
(b) It didn't.
(c) In a draw.
(d) A commonplace way.

5. On what bus does the story take place?
(a) S.
(b) East.
(c) L.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator meet the man in Retrograde?

2. Why does the narrator of Word Game describe the man as ridiculous?

3. Why did the author stop writing variations by 1946?

4. What variation is included in the Notes section "for free"?

5. What is unusual about Prognostication?

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