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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the variation Rhyming Slang replacing in Exercises in Style?
(a) Poor lay Zanglay.
(b) Anglicismes.
(c) Por devant par derriere.
(d) Loucherbem.

2. How many acts are in Opera English?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

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

4. What is the age of the narrator in Reactionary?
(a) Older.
(b) Middle-aged.
(c) A child.
(d) Younger.

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

6. How is the man's neck described in Gustatory?
(a) Rather sourish.
(b) Rather normal.
(c) Rather long.
(d) Rather unusual.

7. What variation is Opera English replacing in Exercises in Style?
(a) West Indian.
(b) Italianismes.
(c) Anglicismes.
(d) Javanais.

8. What language is English blended with in Gallicisms?
(a) Spanish.
(b) West Indian.
(c) German.
(d) French.

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

10. What is the gender of the narrator of Feminine?
(a) Female.
(b) There are two narrators: male and female.
(c) Male.
(d) The gender is not known.

11. What sense is the focus of Auditory?
(a) Smell.
(b) Taste.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Sight.

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

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

14. What is different about the first man in Spectral?
(a) He is a woman.
(b) He is a ghost.
(c) He is a dog.
(d) Nothing is different about him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the man's head described in Auditory?

2. What sound is interjected throughout Parechesis?

3. What makes Ode unique compared to all other variations in Exercises in Style?

4. How is Telegraphic signed?

5. What is true about the words used in More or Less?

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