2. How is the bus described in Visual?
(a) Green.
(b) Low and rumbling, like approaching thunder.
(c) Hard and cold, like ice.
(d) Metallic-tasting, like a fork.

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

4. How are the passengers described in Medical?
(a) Charts.
(b) Patients.
(c) Ambulance chasers.
(d) Stretcher cases.

5. What variation is Gallicisms replacing?
(a) Poor Lay Zanglay.
(b) West Indian.
(c) For Ze Frrensh.
(d) Anglicismes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of Biased notice about the nearby passengers?

2. What is one characteristic of Philosophic?

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

4. What tinges the hat's plaited cord in Gustatory?

5. How are the events related in Mathematical?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What makes the variation "Awkward" seem awkward?

9. What makes the variation "Abusive" so confrontational?

10. What is apostrophe in literature? How is it used in the variation "Apostrophe?"

(see the answer keys)

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