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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Preface based on?
(a) A talk given in 1958.
(b) A letter by Raymond Queneau.
(c) The basic story of Exercises in Style.
(d) A letter by Barbara Wright.

2. How is the hat described in Retrograde?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Felt.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Sharp.

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

4. What needs to be repaired on the man's coat?
(a) A hole at the shoulder.
(b) A button.
(c) A rip in the left pocket.
(d) A zipper.

5. How many exercises are included in a list of "possible exercises in style"?
(a) 124.
(b) 101.
(c) 30.
(d) 500.

6. What word replaces all personal nouns and pronouns in Polyptotes?
(a) Taxpayer.
(b) Animal.
(c) Human.
(d) Passenger.

7. Who is the narrator of Exclamations?
(a) An apathetic observer.
(b) The first man.
(c) The second man.
(d) An excited observer.

8. What is the young man drinking in Metaphorically?
(a) Espresso.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Hope.

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

10. What publication is the translation based on?
(a) The original 1946 British.
(b) The original 1947 French.
(c) The original 1952 Greek.
(d) The original 1947 English.

11. What exercise does Cockney replace in Exercises in Style?
(a) Brogue.
(b) Southern Drawl.
(c) Vulgaire.
(d) Mandarin.

12. How long after the bus ride is the man seen again by the narrator, according to Double Entry?
(a) Immediately following.
(b) The next day.
(c) Two hours.
(d) That afternoon.

13. What was happening to the passengers in Passive?
(a) They were being jostled along.
(b) They were being rushed through the streets.
(c) They were being watched by the sun.
(d) They were being squashed together.

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

15. From what did the young man suffer in Alexandrines?
(a) Hand tremors.
(b) A limp.
(c) Aggressiveness.
(d) Halitosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where are letters and syllables missing in Apocope?

2. What is personified in Noble?

3. What complaint does the man have in Polyptotes?

4. What interjection is included frequently in You Know?

5. Where did the man throw himself in Dream?

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