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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. According to the narrator of Awkward, what is the most difficult part of writing the story?
(a) The transition.
(b) The climax.
(c) The exposition.
(d) The denouement.

2. What letters are mixed up with adjoining words in Spoonerisms?
(a) The middle.
(b) All of them.
(c) The last.
(d) The first.

3. Who is revealed to be the young man's friend in Unexpected?
(a) George.
(b) Albert.
(c) Robert.
(d) Theodore.

4. What literary form is Free Verse?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Short story.
(c) Essay.
(d) Play.

5. What animal describes the young man in Portrait?
(a) Lemur.
(b) Styal.
(c) Model.
(d) Paintbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the passengers described in Medical?

2. What sense is the focus of Auditory?

3. What is characteristic about the events in Antiphrasis?

4. How does the narrator of Reactionary describe the man's friend when he sees them later?

5. What terminology characterizes Botanical?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. Explain how the basic story is changed in "Antiphrasis."

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

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

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

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