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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 tinges the hat's plaited cord in Gustatory?
(a) The flavor of cocoa.
(b) The dingy look of being used too long.
(c) The sweet smell of sweat in the city.
(d) The leathery feel of weather.

2. How is the man's hat described in Abusive?
(a) Gaudy.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Stinking.

3. How are the words written in For Ze Frrensh?
(a) Phonetically.
(b) In random order.
(c) In French.
(d) Alphabetically.

4. What terminology is used in Gastronomical?
(a) Coffee-related.
(b) Words and phrases dealing with gaseous elements.
(c) Food-related.
(d) Medical.

5. What makes Paragoge difficult to read?
(a) Letters omitted from the ends of the words.
(b) Letters added to the beginnings of the words.
(c) Letters added to the middles of the words.
(d) Letters added to the ends of the words.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the bus described in Tactile?

2. How are the passengers described in Medical?

3. How is the man's head described in Auditory?

4. Why are the Permutations exercises virtually incomprehensible?

5. How does the narrator of Feminine describe the man's friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the author ends Exercises in Style with the variation "Unexpected?"

2. Why are the variations in Section 8 put together?

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

4. Why might the variation "More or Less" be easier to read aloud?

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

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

7. What makes the narrator in the variation "Biased" a biased narrator?

8. Why is the variation "For Ze Frrensh" considered comical? Why is this variation put in place of "Poor lay Zanglay" in the English version of Exercises in Style?

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

10. Compare and contrast "Back Slang" and "Dog Latin."

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