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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time passed in Litotes until the narrator saw the man again?
(a) An afternoon.
(b) A day.
(c) No time is given.
(d) Two hours.

2. What word is frequently seen in Speaking Personally?
(a) Personally.
(b) Honestly.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Speaking.

3. How many variations of the basic story were created by 1946?
(a) 50.
(b) 99.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

7. What was the man doing two hours later in Narrative?
(a) Having a conversation.
(b) Waiting for another bus.
(c) Following the second man.
(d) Looking for a tailor shop.

8. Who is the author of Exercises in Style?
(a) Raymond Queneau.
(b) The author is unknown.
(c) A. S. Byatt.
(d) Barbara Wright.

9. What sound is interjected throughout Homeoptotes?
(a) -ete.
(b) -ate.
(c) -ale.
(d) -ote.

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

11. What element of the basic story is NOT mentioned in Ignorance?
(a) The button.
(b) The first man.
(c) The hat.
(d) The S bus.

12. Where did the man throw himself in Dream?
(a) Off the bus.
(b) Into a corridor.
(c) At the other man.
(d) Into a seat.

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

14. What is the last piece of information given in Retrograde?
(a) The description of the young man.
(b) The time of day.
(c) The argument between the two men.
(d) The name of the bus.

15. What family member of the narrator is mentioned in Ignorance?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Niece.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many variations of the basic story were created by 1942?

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

4. What replaced the ribbon on the hat in Dream?

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

(see the answer keys)

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