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

2. What bus does the narrator get on in Past?
(a) Arc de Triomphe.
(b) Rue Chateau.
(c) Cour de Rome.
(d) Porte Champerret.

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

4. What was one of the characteristics of the young man in Passive?
(a) A long neck.
(b) A limp.
(c) An arrogant attitude.
(d) A whiny voice.

5. What exercise does Cockney replace in Exercises in Style?
(a) Mandarin.
(b) Brogue.
(c) Southern Drawl.
(d) Vulgaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What needed to be added to the man's overcoat in Homeoptotes?

2. What word replaces all personal nouns and pronouns in Polyptotes?

3. What is personified in Noble?

4. Who is the translator of Exercises in Style?

5. What is the last piece of information given in Retrograde?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the style used in the variation "Prognostication."

2. Why do you think the variation "Noble" is titled "Noble?"

3. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

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

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

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

7. What are the three reactions Barbara Wright received when she told people she was translating a book by Raymond Queneau?

8. How do the events occur in the variation "Retrograde?"

9. Explain passive voice as used in the variation "Passive."

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

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