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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 expertise does the witness have in Cross Examination?
(a) Architectual.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Medical.
(d) Psychological.

2. How is the hat described in Insistence?
(a) Leather.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Felt.
(d) Weather-beaten.

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

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

5. What is the poetic form used in Alexandrines.
(a) Haiku.
(b) Free verse.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Ode.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the hat described in Retrograde?

2. How long after the bus ride is the man seen again by the narrator, according to Double Entry?

3. What are the only things that never meet, according to the narrator of Speaking Personally?

4. According to the Preface, what is Raymond Queaneau a member of?

5. What were on the bus in Hesitation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the Preface, what does Queneau say is his purpose in writing Exercises in Style? What did Queneau say the finished product acts as?

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

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

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

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

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

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