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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 does the Preface begin?
(a) "Let me begin plainly."
(b) "Ladies and Gentlemen."
(c) "This is not an easy book."
(d) "Dear Readers."

2. What is unusual about Anagrams?
(a) The words in each sentence are rearranged.
(b) The order of the story is rearranged.
(c) The letters of the words are rearranged.
(d) The paragraphs are rearranged.

3. What was the young man's complaint in Word-Composition?
(a) You're massitudinarily in the aisle.
(b) You're lutetioing me.
(c) You're lazaresquaring me.
(d) You're jostleseeming me.

4. According to the Preface, what is Raymond Queaneau a member of?
(a) The Romance Writers of America.
(b) The Academie Goncourt.
(c) Parliament.
(d) The Knights of Columbus.

5. What interjection is included frequently in You Know?
(a) I know.
(b) Know what I mean?
(c) You know.
(d) Do you know?

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acts are in Comedy?

2. What comparison does the narrator make about himself in Noble?

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

4. What family member of the narrator is mentioned in Ignorance?

5. How much time passed in Litotes until the narrator saw the man again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the use of onomatopoeia in the variation "Onomatopoeia" accomplish for the reader?

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

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

4. Compare and contrast the two "Subjectivity" variations.

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

6. How and why does the author use parentheses so frequently in "Distinguo?"

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

8. Explain how Exercises in Style evolved into what it is in the book. Does the author have any future plans for Exercises in Style?

9. What is "litotes," and how does it apply to the variation of the same name?

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

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