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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 one characteristic of Philosophic?
(a) Simple sentence structure.
(b) Complicated sentence structure.
(c) All the characters are named.
(d) The events take place on a boat.

2. What variation is For Ze Frrensh replacing in Exercises in Style?
(a) West Indian.
(b) Poor Lay Zanglay.
(c) Italianismes.
(d) Anglicismes.

3. What is wrong with the button in Philosophic?
(a) It is psychologically unbalanced.
(b) It is sociologically too high.
(c) It is economically too high.
(d) It is sociologically too low.

4. What sense is the focus of Tactile?
(a) Touch.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Sight.
(d) Taste.

5. What terminology characterizes Botanical?
(a) References to mammals.
(b) References to plants and flowers.
(c) References to architecture.
(d) References to reptiles and amphibians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense is the focus of Auditory?

2. What literary form is Free Verse?

3. How many lines are in Haiku?

4. How is the overcoat described in Visual?

5. What variation is Consequences replacing in Exercises in Style?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a haiku and how is it used in Exercises in Style?

2. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

3. What does the author do to the basic story in the variation "Parts of Speech?"

4. Explain the variation "Reactionary," and why it is titled "Reactionary."

5. Explain how the author can write the variation "Gustatory" without tasting anything that happens in the story?

6. Why does Raymond Queneau include variations containing unintelligible words and phrases, such as in the "Permutations" variations?

7. Why do you think the author writes a separate variation for each of the five senses?

8. Explain how "Ode" is different from the rest of the variations.

9. Explain the variation "Consequences."

10. What elements of the variation "Spectral" make it gothic?

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