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

2. What is the focus of Animism?
(a) The first man's hat.
(b) The bus driver's seat.
(c) The second man's shoes.
(d) The first man's overcoat.

3. How many variations of the basic story were created by 1942?
(a) 99.
(b) 12.
(c) 50.
(d) 3.

4. According to the Preface, what does the Paris metro smell like?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Garlic.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Petrol.

5. Where was the narrator when he saw the man again in Past?
(a) On the street.
(b) On a bus.
(c) In a cab.
(d) In an apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the man talking about with a friend later, according to Litotes?

2. What was the young man's complaint in Word-Composition?

3. What interjection is included frequently in You Know?

4. What is the narrator not displeased with in The Subjective Side?

5. Where did the narrator meet the man in Retrograde?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the perspective of the basic story given in "Animism." How does the author accomplish this perspective?

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

3. Wright says Exercises in Style was one of the books Queneau wanted translated. What is her reaction?

4. How are readers able to understand the invented words in the variation "Word Composition?"

5. What is a metaphor, and how does it apply to the variation titled "Metaphorically?"

6. How does the author make the variation "Insistence" seem insistent to the reader?

7. What does "Another Subjectivity" reveal about the relationship between the young man and the second man?

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

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

10. How are the variations "Comedy" and "Asides" alike?

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