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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one characteristic of Casual?
(a) Visual comedy.
(b) Long paragraphs.
(c) Vivid descriptions.
(d) Frequent dialogue.

2. How are the words arranged in Parts of Speech?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Alphabetically within the sentences.
(c) By parts of speech.
(d) There is no alteration of the arrangement of words in Parts of Speech.

3. What is wrong with the button in Philosophic?
(a) It is sociologically too low.
(b) It is psychologically unbalanced.
(c) It is sociologically too high.
(d) It is economically too high.

4. Who is revealed to be the young man's friend in Unexpected?
(a) George.
(b) Theodore.
(c) Robert.
(d) Albert.

5. How is the man's hat described in Abusive?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Grotesque.
(c) Gaudy.
(d) Stinking.

6. What sense is the focus of Olfactory?
(a) Smell.
(b) Sight.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Touch.

7. What is one characteristic of Telegraphic?
(a) No punctuation.
(b) Detailed descriptions.
(c) No linear story.
(d) Highly poetic sentence structure.

8. What sense is the focus of Tactile?
(a) Taste.
(b) Touch.
(c) Sight.
(d) Hearing.

9. What variation is Back Slang replacing in Exercises in Style?
(a) Anglicismes.
(b) Italianismes.
(c) Javanais.
(d) Loucherbem.

10. How are the passengers described in Medical?
(a) Patients.
(b) Stretcher cases.
(c) Charts.
(d) Ambulance chasers.

11. How is the bus described in Tactile?
(a) Metallic-tasting, like a fork.
(b) Low and rumbling, like approaching thunder.
(c) Soft.
(d) Steely gray.

12. What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of Sonnet?
(a) ABBA
(b) ABCA
(c) ABAB
(d) AABB

13. What does the literary term "apostrophe" mean? (Not the punctuation mark.)
(a) A character used to highlight a specific trait in another character.
(b) An address to an inanimate object.
(c) A reference to a well known historical or religious person, event, or idea.
(d) A seventeen-line poem using a specific rhyme scheme and repetition.

14. What makes Epenthesis difficult to read?
(a) Letters omitted from the ends of the words.
(b) Letters added to the beginnings of the words.
(c) Letters added to the ends of the words.
(d) Letters added to the middles of the words.

15. What literary form is Free Verse?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Short story.
(c) Play.
(d) Essay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gender of the narrator of Feminine?

2. From what origin are many of the words in Hellenisms?

3. What is West Indian replacing in Exercises in Style?

4. What form of slang does Back Slang use?

5. What variation is Consequences replacing in Exercises in Style?

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