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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 Parts of Speech?
(a) The first man is given a name.
(b) There are no proper nouns.
(c) There is no punctuation.
(d) There is no linear story.

2. What sense is the focus of Auditory?
(a) Smell.
(b) Taste.
(c) Sight.
(d) Hearing.

3. What is one characteristic of Casual?
(a) Vivid descriptions.
(b) Visual comedy.
(c) Frequent dialogue.
(d) Long paragraphs.

4. What language is used in Dog Latin?
(a) English.
(b) Standard Latin.
(c) Pig Latin.
(d) French.

5. According to the narrator of Probabilist, what is not likely to occur?
(a) The first and second man will become friends.
(b) The hat's ribbon will be replaced.
(c) The man will move the button on his overcoat.
(d) A third encounter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with the button in Philosophic?

2. How does the narrator describe the bus conductor in Reactionary?

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

4. What is used throughout Futile?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

3. Explain the variation "Consequences."

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What is the style of the variation "Modern Style?" How do you know?

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

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

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