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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where are letters and syllables missing in Apocope?
(a) The beginning of sentences.
(b) The middle of words.
(c) The end of words.
(d) The beginning of words.

2. What attracted the young man in Metaphorically?
(a) A young woman.
(b) The park.
(c) A void.
(d) The smell of croissants.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the overall impression of the novel, according to Blurb?

3. How is the voice of the man described in Insistence?

4. How is the man's neck described in Prognostication?

5. At what time of day does the story take place, according to Double Entry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the details in the variation "Dream" vague?

2. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

3. What do you learn about the narrator of "Ignorance" from reading the variation?

4. What is an Alexandrine sonnet, and what are the rhyme scheme and meter used in "Alexandrines?"

5. Explain the variation "Cross Examination."

6. Why might the variation "Cockney" be difficult to read?

7. How is the story manipulated in "Double Entry?"

8. Explain how the words in parentheses are used in the variation "Word Game."

9. Why are the majority of sentences in the variation "Logical Analysis" fragments?

10. Why do you think Queneau begins with the variation "Notation?"

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