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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. How many words are listed at the start of Word Game?
(a) Five.
(b) None.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

2. What word is misspelled and corrected in Official Letter?
(a) Provoke.
(b) Animation.
(c) Addendum.
(d) Exaggerated.

3. How much time passed in Litotes until the narrator saw the man again?
(a) No time is given.
(b) A day.
(c) An afternoon.
(d) Two hours.

4. What is the point of view of Present?
(a) First-person present tense.
(b) Second-person present tense.
(c) Third-person present tense.
(d) Third-person past tense.

5. On what bus does the story take place?
(a) S.
(b) East.
(c) L.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of Another Subjectivity?

2. What is the name of the novelist in Blurb?

3. What is the third reaction given when the author of the Preface explains what work is being done?

4. How does the narrator describe the man's hat in Speaking Personally?

5. How is the altercation described in Negativities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the author use a different typeface in "Official Letter?"

4. What does Wright say is the point of Exercises in Style?

5. Explain at least three differences between the variations "Past" and "Present."

6. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

7. Explain the variation "Cross Examination."

8. What is common among the narrators in "Speaking Personally," "Exclamations," and "You Know?"

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

10. Why is the first variation in Section 3 called "Surprises?"

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